GEOG 100 Chapter Colorado River: ColoradoRiverCaseStudy
31 Oct 2016
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Drains an area of 637,000 square kilometers (incl. Wyoming, colorado, utah, new mexico, nevada, arizona, california, Mexico); total runoff about 700 cubic meters per second. 10 mil pop. (cid:313) in colorado river users in usa+mexico since 1990 (cid:314) need (cid:313) of 2mil af of h2o to match pop. growth. Competing states/nations/interest groups: examine the demands, rights, and allocations: Cali & right of appropriation (cid:314) first in time, first in right. Surface h2o transported away fr naturally occurring location & used on lands not adjoining source h2o body. Colorado river compact: will not affect obligations of usa to indian tribes (cid:314) water rights est"d at the time. 1963 supreme court granted enough h2o to irrigate all irrigable acreage w/in tribes" boundaries (pop. of 10,000 (cid:314) 9 maf). Tribes wanted to market h2o to make 22164$ but states generally prefer limiting tribes to intra-state h2o marketing.
