Viability of Interbasin, Interstate/International Transfers of Water

NOTES AND REFERENCES

• The attribution of views to “some people” in the United States and Canada, from water short as well as water abundant regions, is based upon the author's perceptions derived from his experiences for almost nine years (1961–1969), in the U.S. government at the water policy level in Washington, D.C., including three years as Executive Director, U.S. Water Resources Council. Journalistic reports for over thirty years have also contributed to his perceptions. His experiences have included discussions with officials of the government of Canada as well as attendance at professional meetings in Canada and in the United States on the topic of water transfers
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• 1973 . See report of the National Water Commission, Water Policies for the Future (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,, Chapter 8), for a further discussion of this general issue, including terms of trade
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• 1963 . The water situation in California, however, may present a special case: not for interbasin, interstate water transfer but for further interbasin, intrastate water transfers. As a result of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in California v. Arizona in, California must reduce its water diversions from the Colorado River by 1.5 billion m3 per year (from 6.9 billion m3 now to 5.4 billion m3) when Arizona needs that water for its Central Arizona Project now under construction as authorized by the Colorado Basin Projects Act of 1968. California voters have been to election polls twice in recent years to establish (but, so far, inconclusively) a state water policy. One alternative policy would authorize an additional north-south water transfer to compensate for the state's loss of Colorado River water. Urban water demands in California are still increasing. Water could be transferred from agricultural use. But a large proportion of California's agriculture is in high valued crops that supply a large proportion of the Nation's demands for fruits, vegetables, wines, etc.—crops that generally do not involve surpluses. Both California and the Nation as a whole have interests at stake in this issue
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• The general perceptions, information and iudgments reflected in this analysis regarding china derive from a six-week visit in the Fall 1983 to the People's Republic of China as well as reading of relevant materials accumulated before, during and after the visit. The visit included three weeks as a visiting professor at the East China Technical University of Water Resources, Nanjing, a trip to the water conservancy project at Yangzhou (mentioned in the text), and discussions with the staffs of the Chang Jiang Planning Office, Wuhan, and the Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power Research Institute, Academy of Sciences, Beijing
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• 1990 . The China Daily (the official English language newspaper) has reported that “the first phase of the project, which will take 25 years, will start before and involve a channel from Yangzhou in the east coast province of Jiangsu to Dongping Lake in neighboring Shandong Province. It will protect 23 million people and more than 4.9 million acres (1.98 million hectares) of farmland from drought” (Fort Collins, Coloradoan, Fort Collins, Colorado, September 3, 1985
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