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<br /> <br />{.,. <br /> <br />:"-,<, .... <br />'~~;';~: . <br /> <br />-;'. ';'" <br /> <br />>-- <br /> <br />"';" <br /> <br />."~, <br /> <br />". <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />SAN CLEMENTE, Calif,-(UPI)-The <br />United States has agreed to spend $115 <br />million to clean uj> Colorado River'water <br />before it flows into Mexico, a major <br />dispute between the two nations for 12 <br />years. <br />The agreement, announced Thursday by <br />the Western White House, includes con- <br />struction of the world's largest desalting <br />plant, at a cost of $67 million, and canals <br />and waterworks in southern Arizona and <br />northern Mexico. <br />The agreement still must be approved <br />by the U,S, Congress, There were some <br />signs of opPosition by Southwestern of- <br />ficials, <br /> <br />Reported by Brownell <br />The agreement was announced by a <br />former U,S, attorney general, Herbert <br />Brownell, who was appointed special am- <br />bassador to' Mexico for the task, and has <br />been conducting negotiations in Mexico <br />City for a year, , <br />The plant will remove up to 90 per cent <br />of the ,saIinity in waters in the channel <br />draining the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation <br />Project oi southern Arizona, <br />Mexican authorities have complained <br />that extensive irrigation of salty soils in <br />the Colorado River Basin has increased <br />the salinity of water flowing into tbe Mcx- <br />icaIi Valley and brought poverty to <br />thousands of Mexican farmers there by <br />ruining their crops. <br />Mexico estimates the ruined cropland ;;; <br /> <br />~~~~~"'~1)S8 <br /> <br /><~" , . :'--', '. <br /> <br />!',.'; <br /> <br />.,..... <br />