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<br />,(.-, <br />J:..... <br />'i>~ , <br /> <br /><:..~ <br />,; A+,~;l <br /> <br />~.... <br />l'0 <br />o <br />(Xl <br /> <br />the resolution proposing ratification of the Treaty in 1945, <br />representatives of the State Department unequivocally assured <br />the Senate that the proposed Treaty allowed the United States <br />to deliver 1.5 million acre-feet, regardless of quality, even <br />if the water was unusable by !-lexica. <br /> <br />Since the beginning of this controversy, Mexico has claimed <br />that she is entitled under the 19~f Treaty to insist that all <br />of the million and one-half acre-feet delivered must be of a <br /> <br />quality usable for irrigation, and has frequently claimed that <br />that quality must be no worse than the quality enjoyed by the <br />last major diversion from the Colorado River in the United <br /> <br />States, Imperial Dam. <br />On June 17, 1972, after. a meeting in WaShington, D.C., <br />President Nixon and President Echeverria of Mexico issued a <br /> <br />Joint r.ommunique in which it >!as. promised that "a permanent, <br />definitive and just" solution to the international salinity <br />problem would be promptly reco~~ended by a special representa- <br />tive to be named by President Ilixon. The HOIlOl'able Herbert <br />Bro'inell was later named special representative and he headed <br /> <br />a task force of federal agency pel'sonnel who made an intensive <br /> <br />study of the problem in late 1972. <br /> <br />l1r. Bro.mell reported his <br /> <br />proposals to President Nixon on December 28, 1972. His <br />recommendation consisted principally of a desalting plant so <br />sized and sited as to be able to desalinate a large portion <br />of the Vlellton-Hohawk Project return flo;ls. He also proposed the <br />lining of a section of the Coachella Canal in California in order <br /> <br />to salvage a quantity of .waters no" lost through seepage, so <br /> <br /> <br />as to be able to obtain credit for such salvabe waters and use <br /> <br />them to repay to the River the quantities of substitution water <br /> <br />released to Hexieo from storage in the United States above the <br />Treaty obligation. <br /> <br />Thereafter, negotiations "ere initiated with Mexico with <br /> <br />-4- <br /> <br />L <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />......:-, <br />.~'. '-. <br /> <br />'./"".' . <br />::. . -..: :~, ~.~ ~ >:~::::.~ .;(::::\:: :~~ <br /> <br />.:',:' <br />, ''';-. ,~,. <br /> <br />J. <br /> <br />..-.... <br /> <br />,. .:-.-~ . ~ " . ~. <br />i,;:i:\}h'9.... <br /> <br />'"'' <br />-, <br />""_.:"'i <br />...-jl~' <br /> <br />;~'"\;.\.-''' <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />{,::;.,...-. ,H. <br />.. ";'.:...:-.'" .,-,:'.' <br />