BajaNomad
Not logged in [Login - Register]

Go To Bottom
Printable Version  
Author: Subject: The other Gulf War- fight for the Colorado
Stephanie Jackter
Senior Nomad
***




Posts: 566
Registered: 11-3-2002
Location: Arizona
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 5-23-2003 at 12:33 AM
The other Gulf War- fight for the Colorado


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20030521-2312-mexi...

ASSOCIATED PRESS
11:12 p.m., May 21, 2003

MEXICO CITY ? Mexico implored the United States not to cut the flow of Colorado River water in retaliation for this country's water debt in the Rio Grande region, saying such a move would harm efforts to save the environmentally sensitive upper Gulf of California.

Activists worry that endangered species like the Vaquita porpoises ? of which less than 600 remain ? could become the latest victims of the water conflict.

"Don't shoot yourself in the foot by doing something that would affect both sides, by affecting something we both are interested in saving," Environment Secretary Victor Lichtinger said at a news conference Wednesday.

Located 50 miles south of the Mexico-U.S. border, Jaques Cousteau once described the upper Gulf of California as "the world's aquarium."

Earlier this month, angered by Mexico's failure to deliver agreed-on amounts of water into the Rio Grande, Texas Rep. Solomon Ortiz called on the U.S. government to withhold water deliveries to Mexico from the Colorado River.

Ortiz said "the only arrow left in our quiver is to withhold water (the Mexicans) need, as they have done to the United States for over a decade."

The Colorado flows across the border and into the Gulf of California, creating a wetlands delta which ? while reduced to a shadow of its former size by water overuse ? is still a key breeding ground for birds and marine life.

A 1944 treaty stipulates Mexico must send water into the Rio Grande for use by Texas farmers, in exchange for a much larger amount of Colorado water from the United States. Mexico has failed to deliver its full contribution over the last decade.

"This shouldn't be a question of revenge or retaliation," Lichtinger said. "We should work together to conserve the Colorado River Delta."



View user's profile

  Go To Top

 






All Content Copyright 1997- Q87 International; All Rights Reserved.
Powered by XMB; XMB Forum Software © 2001-2014 The XMB Group






"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen. The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez

 

"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes

 

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn

 

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law







Thank you to Baja Bound Mexico Insurance Services for your long-term support of the BajaNomad.com Forums site.







Emergency Baja Contacts Include:

Desert Hawks; El Rosario-based ambulance transport; Emergency #: (616) 103-0262