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<br />w <br />CD <br />00 <br />..;E <br /> <br />^,.,;~_.. . <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />~._' <br /> <br />by the fact that president Kennedy was visiting Mexico and one <br /> <br />of the thorniest problems between the two countries was the <br /> <br />quality of water being delivered to Mexico. <br /> <br />In the years 1962, 1963 and 1964, the United States took <br /> <br />some measures to reduce the salinity of waters delivered to <br /> <br />Mexico. <br /> <br />Before I go any further, I want to play engineer a little <br /> <br />bit and try to explain what is known by the concept of "salt <br /> <br />balance." <br /> <br />Salt balance is a situation where the quality of water <br /> <br />returned to a stream is no worse than the quality of water <br /> <br />applied to the land. <br /> <br />The United States has always taken the position that if the <br /> <br />water returning to the stream below Imperial Dam was in salt <br /> <br />balance with the water delivered to the lands, that certainly <br /> <br />Mexico would have no complaint; therefore, numerous physical <br /> <br />solutions were proposed to approach salt balance in the reach of <br /> <br />the stream between Imperial Dam and the headgate for the Mexican <br /> <br />deliveries at r'lorelos Dam. <br /> <br />The protest of the Republic of Mexico caused the reactiva- <br /> <br />tion of what was known as the Committee of 14. The Committee of <br /> <br />14 was orig~nally established to advise the governors of the <br /> <br />seven western states on the negotiation of the 1944 treaty with <br /> <br />Mexico. After the treaty was ratified by the two countries, the <br /> <br />Committee had no longer functioned. The Committee was composed <br /> <br />of two representatives from each of the Colorado River Basin <br /> <br />sta tes . <br />