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<br />--- -~-~~~g ~~.~ <br /> <br />I...l'(ti~t" - tslWl: <br /> <br />P.13 <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />XIR.10 <br /> <br />UPDATING TIiE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENI'S <br /> <br />1303 <br /> <br />English Text of Minute 242 <br /> <br />INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION <br />UNTTCD STAn:5 AND MEXICO <br /> <br />Mexico.D.F. <br />August 30. 1973 <br /> <br />MINUTC NO. 242 <br /> <br />PERMANENT AND DEFlNrT1VE SOLUTION TO THE <br />INTERNATIONAl PROBLEM OF THE SAUNrIY OF THE COLORADO RIVER <br /> <br />The Commialon met at the Secretariat of Foreign ReIa1ions. at MexIco. D.F.. lit 5:00 p.m. on August 30. <br />1973. pW'SUanllo the InslI'UdIon. receiWld by the two CommJss;onl!l'l from their rapecllve Govemmenll. In <br />order to IncotpOrate In a Minute of the Commission the joint recommendmlons which Wen! made to their <br />respec:tive Presidenll by. the Speclal Represenmtiw of President Richard NIxon, Ambassador Herber1 <br />Bra\loTlell, and the s..adiUy of Foreign Relalion. of MexIco. tic. Emili'; O. Rabasa. and which hava baen ap' <br />proved by the Presiclenll. for a permanent and definitive solution of the In_lIonal problem of the salinity <br />of the Colorado River, resulting from the negotlalion. which th"Y. and their technical and Jurldicoll! advisers. <br />held In June, July and August of 1973. In compliance with the references to this mailer contained In the Joint <br />Communique of PresiclenlS Rk:hard Nixon and Luis Echeverria of June 17. 1972. <br /> <br />Accordingly. the Commission submits for the approval of the two Govemmenll the following <br /> <br />RESOLUTION: <br /> <br />1. Referring to the annual volume 01 Colorado Rlv.... waters guaranteed to Mexico under the Treaty of <br />1944. of 1.500.000 eae.feet ll.85O.234.ooo cubic metersl: <br /> <br />at The United Slillel shall adopt measur8$ to assure that not earner than January 1. 1974. and no later <br />than July I, 1974. the approximately 1.360.000 acre.feet (1.6n.545.000 cubic metersl delivered to <br />Mexico upslrellm of Morelos Dam. have an annual average salinity 01 no more than 115 p.p.m.:t 30 <br />p.p.m. U.S. count (121 p.p.m.:t: 30 p.p.rn. Mexican count! Over the annual average $o!Jlnlty of CoJ- <br />oraclo River waters which arrive at Imperial Dam. with the understanding that ""y wabln that may be <br />delivered to Mexico under the Treaty of 1944 by means of the All American Canlll shall ba considered as <br />having been delivered upSG'eam of Morelo. Dam for the purpose of computing thl. $o!Jlnlry. <br /> <br />bl The United States will continue to deliv.... to Mexico on the land boundary at San Luis and in the <br />limitrophe section 0/ the Colorado River downstream from Morelos Dam approximately 140.000 acre- <br />feet (172.689.000 cubic meters> annually With a salinity substantially the same a5 that of the waters <br />customarily delivered there. I <br /> <br />cl Any decrease in deliveries under point 1 (b) will be made up by an equal increaS4! in deliveries under <br />point lIa). <br />