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<br />"c2- <br /> <br />Q' Can you s ununarize for us \Y'hat' the <br />agreement is? <br /> <br />N <br />o <br />-.J <br />C; <br /> <br />AHBASSADOR BROWNELL: The agreement is <br />substantially this, That starting next ye-ar, the United <br />States agrees with Nexico that the salinity of the <br />Colorado River as it goes over the International Border <br />>,i11 be at a. specified level, >Ihich is desceibedas' <br />115 parts per million, plus or minus' 30, and that mea~s <br />that we have agreed to eliminate the adverse salinity <br />effects of the Wellton-Mohawk district which'was opened <br />up about 12 years ago a~d largely caqaed this excess <br />s.alini ty . <br /> <br />In order to carry that agreement into effect, <br />that promise to Mexico to improve the quality of the water, <br />the Administration will present a program to Congress, <br />perhaps next month, which will call for building a <br />desalting plant in Arizona to desalt the waters that come <br />, from the Weliton~Mohawk district. <br /> <br />In addition to that, in order to obtain more <br />and a better quality of water, the proposed legislation <br />will provide for relining a segment of about 50 miles <br />of the Coachella Canal in California, and the third big <br />public work that is involved will be the building <br />,of a drainage outlet from the desalting plant right <br />through Mexico to the Santa Clara slough on the Gulf <br />of California which will drain off the brine which comes <br />from the 'desalting plant. <br /> <br />Q Mr. Amba$sador, could you give us some <br />words so that us Easterners can understand th,e impor- <br />tance of this thing? Economically, how important is <br />i,t to the fanners? <br /> <br />Al4BASSADOR BROWNELL: I think so, by doing <br />a brief amount of background. <br /> <br />Th!3 United States and 11exico entered into an <br />agreement in 1944 which called.for delivery of a certain <br />quantity of water to 'Mexico each year, but there was <br />nothing said in the agreement about the quality of the <br />water and, when_ some of these irrigation districts opened <br />up, like the Wellton-Mohewk district, it substantially <br />decreased the quality of the water so that Mexico had <br />complained that it made it impossible for them to profitably <br />use irrigated lands in the Mexicali Valley for the <br />growing of agricultural crops. <br /> <br />Their claim was a substantial one and many hundreds <br />of acres, if not thousands of acres, in their caloulations, <br />were adversely affected by the low quality of the water. <br />And many acres were taken out of cultivation all together <br />so that it meant a decrease in tlleir agricultural. income <br />and it meant. a decrease in the standard of living, <br />according to their reports, of many of the farmers in <br />that area of Mexico. <br /> <br />MORE <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. '\,; '!'/Ji\':';', ,;,:.>' <br />','"k';\ :/ <br />'f .....,...\i; ;,'; <br />;it','.',: <br />;,:<.:;.: <br />:,/;<i;\ J ,,> <br /> <br />{"~.tY'(t(~: <br />. .';;:.,{.;".F:, <br /> <br />"<,< ,;. ........... <br /> <br /><>>;i.e;>;; <br />; :,- i; ;;;i;j\} .',;f';Yi:;,'; <br />',;'I?~,'>::': ..>.'-:,-.....'...;:/~ittl;;: <br />;<~~!,0i~.(?:i<';,~~c; ii" <br />,:F '.;, ";: <br />,:" >: ...., ;:c <br />ii, :. ...'....:..;.>'. i'~;!,~;C <br /><;:';f,;.:.'" 'i.';'~';C ), <br /> <br />',/, " ,~.',,"". <br />;",:..'..:'.... :;,:'/ J" /, ,,; <br />',i'" 'f,' ): <br />i'C{' ,; :.;,J,\ :C'/,,'.,,> <br /> <br />;;,"...;:;....';F."-;?~:~..\: .<' ... <br />:i.' (< ,C':," ;f~ .... <br />,', C: )",,",';: ~f <br />}.iii:" (i,X::.:,. <br />i' C>.' "':"'" ':: ~ ,~. <br />;;i>; ....."...;,,(4,.;;/ ie' ij. <br />{'r: ',<Ai ........ <br />, ;'t"(,/{:.'fi: <br /> <br />~;:;:"<;;;:;?;;":,;~~~:.~'~ <br />>(Y1';,-;,CJ <br />(;,; '~i~.,'::0?:t:'!;;;"illl"'>;t);i <br />;(iZ';;,::i;S":'i ";::";0 <br />c:/'(',;~'1'i:;:' t( <br />;,';:,;,'(1 d~ ~:~;~i ", ..-, . <br />:./iL} <br />li,,) ,i", .,.... >':::::. <br />. ;. i\'. {-".;;i;:~;(';;~~ <br />'" .',;>. ':'-'>"":', <br />", ,.",i,'. r.i: /,; <br />ii, ''!-,: ..'.' ',.h!' <br />.....:;..,..........>;;,;ie:::~i <br /> <br />;.<'t' ,,' " ,> .;,; <br />'-:.',.";..-,.".:: .' ,:;;:: <br /> <br />(;r, 'i.;'i;:'X,-'.< ....... <br />'. .'; ..,:.'.: ..Y5"<<. ..........: ,.':, <br />..' )'(.<i: 'L";'i1~;.fJ <br /> <br />'.. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />~ <br />'; <br />" <br /> <br />" <br />