Hard Times on the Colorado River: Drought, Growth, and the Future of the Compact, Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Twenty-sixth Annual Conference: June 8-10, 2005
Papers and Presentations:
Wednesday
History of Colorado River Law, Development and Use: A Primer and Look Forward- Justice Greg Hobbs Jr.
Drought, Climate Change and Water Supply Vulnerability- Brad Udall
Response of the System to Various Hydrological and Operational Assumptions: Modeling Results- Terry Fulp
Colorado River Federal Litigation Update- Mike Gheleta
How Does the Gila River Settlement Affect the Tribes and Other Colorado River Users?- Rodney Lewis
Environmental Impact of Increased Colorado River Stress and Shortages- Michael Cohen (Ref 1, Ref 2)
CRSS Lite Screening Model Demonstration- Carly Jerla (Carly Jerla 2005 thesis: An Analysis of Coordinated Operation of Lakes Powell and Mead under Low Reservoir Conditions)
Thursday
Tightening Water Supplies- Kay Brothers
Hard Times on the Colorado River- Jerry Zimmerman
Tightening Water Supplies: Arizona and the Lower Basin States Part 1, Part 2- Herb Guenther
New Mexico Water Stake in the Colorado River- Estevan R. Lopez
Tightening Water Supplies- Patrick Tyrrell
The Multi-Species Conservation Program:What It Means for Water Users and the Environment in the Lower Basin- Joe Vanderhorst
How Does the CAP Water Bank Influence Short-Term and Long-Term Water Supply Vulnerability in the Basin?- Larry Dozier
Whatever Happened to the Soft Landing? Coping With and Without Surplus Waters- Jan Matusak
So What if its Called "All American"- Malissa Hathaway McKeith (Ref 1)
Do the Upper Basin States Have Enough Water to Grow?- Don Ostler
Statewide Water Supply Initiative and Colorado River Compact Development- Rick Brown
Friday
Water Use Efficiency: An Under-tapped Resource- Bart Miller
The Return to the River Basin as the Unit of Management (annotated outline)-Charles Howe
Interstate Marketing and Similar Approaches- Jim Booker
Additional Materials
Conference Agenda
Speaker Bios
Participant List
Conference Primer: An Introduction to Key Facts and Issues Regarding the Allocation and Use of the Colorado River- NRLC (2005)
Annual Operating Plan for Colorado River Reservoirs- Bureau of Reclamation (2005)
The Colorado: A River at Risk Coping with Drought in the Colorado River Basin- Grand Canyon Trust (2005)
Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Report 1996-2000 - Bureau of Reclamation (2004)
Colorado River Basin Study- Dale Pontius (1997)
Coping with Severe, Sustained Drought in the Southwestern United States: Phase 2- Robert A. Young (1994) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Severe, Sustained Drought in the Southwestern United States: Phase 1- U.S. Department of State (1991) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Criteria for coordinated long-range operation of Colorado River reservoirs pursuant to the Colorado River Basin Project Act of September 30, 1968 (P. L. 90-537)- (1970)
Report on the Committee on Probabilities and Test Studies to the Task Force on Operating Criteria for the Colorado River- Bureau of Reclamation (1969)
Water Supplies of the Colorado River- Upper Colorado River Commission (1965)
Annual Salinity Data
5. Key Law of the River Documents:
Arizona v. California: Supplemental Decree (1979)
Permanent and Definitive Solution to the International Problem of the Salinity of the Colorado River (Minute 242; 1973)
Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 (1968)
Arizona v. California (1964)
Colorado River Storage Project (1956)
Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (1948)
Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande (1944)
Boulder Canyon Project Agreement (1931)
Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 (1928)
Colorado River Compact (1922)
Transcripts from the Compact Negotiations (1922)
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