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Slides: Adapting Western Water Policy For Resilience Under Climate Change, Bonnie G. Colby

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

Presenter: Dr. Bonnie G. Colby, Professor of Resource Economics & Hydrology, University of Arizona Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics

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Slides: The Yampa: New Rules For An Old River, Jerd Smith

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

Presenter: Jerd Smith, Reporter, Rocky Mountain News

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Beyond Conjecture: Learning About Ecosystem Management From The Glen Canyon Dam Experiment, Alejandro E. Camacho

Nevada Law Journal

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Introduction: Collaboration Good Or Bad: How Is It Working On The Colorado River?, Jean R. Sternlight

Nevada Law Journal

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Collaborative Management Of The Glen Canyon Dam: The Elevation Of Social Engineering Over Law, Joseph M. Feller

Nevada Law Journal

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Collaborative Solutions To Colorado River Water Shortages: The Basin States' Proposal And Beyond, Douglas L. Grant

Nevada Law Journal

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The Anti-Speculation Doctrine And Its Implications For Collaborative Water Management, Sandra Zellmer

Nevada Law Journal

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An Ecosystem Perspective On Collaboration For The Colorado River, Robert W. Adler

Nevada Law Journal

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Agenda: Securing Environmental Flows On The Colorado River In An Era Of Climate Change: Issues, Challenges, And Opportunities, Western Water Policy Program, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center, Nature Conservancy (U.S.), Trout Unlimited, Environmental Defense (Organization), Western Water Assessment (Program), Western Resource Advocates, United States. Bureau Of Reclamation

Securing Environmental Flows on the Colorado River in an Era of Climate Change: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities (March 21)

The Colorado River is the primary surface water resource of the Southwest, providing water to approximately 30 million residents. Studies and policy decisions associated with a recently completed EIS point to an ever-tightening water supply due to longstanding growth pressures exacerbated by significant climate change impacts. Given these trends, how can the river’s environmental needs be satisfied?

On March 21st, the Center’s Western Water Policy Program brought together four leading Colorado River experts along with an audience of approximately 70 water professionals to discuss “Securing Environmental Flows on the Colorado River in an Era of Climate Change: Issues, Challenges, and …

The Last Stand Of The Wild West: Twenty-First Century Water Wars In Southern California, Shannon M. Baker-Branstetter

Shannon M Baker-Branstetter

In 2003, the Imperial Irrigation District of California agreed to transfer water from rural Imperial County to urban Southern California cities as part of a quantitative settlement agreement (QSA). The Colorado River water that the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) transferred to the wealthy coastal cities was held in trust for the residents of the Imperial Valley, the poorest county in the State. The following paper asserts that the IID Board of Directors breached its trust to the residents and farmers of Imperial County when it sold water rights to municipal districts in Southern California, thus acerbating the poor economic conditions …

A Line Drawn In Water: Aquifers Beneath The Mexico-United States Border, Paul Stanton Kibel

Paul Stanton Kibel

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Introduction: Collaboration Good Or Bad: How Is It Working On The Colorado River?, Jean R. Sternlight

Scholarly Works

This is an introduction to articles submitted as part of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution’s Symposium, Collaboration and the Colorado River. The Symposium focused on the uses of collaboration to resolve environmental and natural resource disputes pertaining to the Colorado River.

This written version of the conference now builds upon the live event. We are most fortunate that many (unfortunately not all) of the speakers were able to contribute articles to comprise this written version of the Symposium. In their papers, presenters have expanded on their oral remarks and responded to points made by others during the conference.

Séances, Ciénegas, And Slop: Can Collaboration Revive The Colorado Delta?, Bret C. Birdsong

Scholarly Works

Issues of transboundary allocation of water resources and its environmental effects are, virtually by their very nature, ones that require collaborative solutions. In the absence of international law norms and institutions to resolve sovereign claims to the waters of international rivers, much of the decisionmaking is left to the collaborative, or negotiated, arrangements between the countries involved and their respective domestic stakeholders. This Article examines collaborative efforts to allocate waters in the Colorado River basin as they relate to the lowest reaches of that great river, the ecologically important but very fragile Colorado River Delta in Mexico. Collaboration is sometimes …