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50 RELEASE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER [Immediate release, Mar. 16, 1962] THE WHITE HOUSE, OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY. 1944 WATER TREATY WITH MEXICO The Presidents of the United States and Mexico are agreed that it is urgent to find a mutually satisfactory solution to the salinity problem. To this end, the Presidents of both countries, through their respective Foreign Offices, have given instructions to their representatives in the International Boundary and Water Commission to recommend within 45 days the measures which should be taken. In order to carry out these instructions in the most effective way the Commissioners are to avail themselves of qualified water and soil scientists. The objective of the two Governments is, without prejudice to the legal rights of either country, to agree upon and actually put into operation remedial measures within the shortest possible period of time. ARIZONA INTERSTATE STREAM COMMISSION, Phoenix, Ariz., April 2, 1962. Hon. CLINTON P. ANDERSON, Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. MY DEAR CHAIRMAN ANDERSON: I have the honor to enclose a certified copy of a resolution unanimously adopted by the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission at its last regular meeting. Sincerely yours, RAY KILLIAN, Executive Secretary. RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE ARIZONA INTERSTATE STREAM COMMISSION MARCH 16, 1962 Whereas the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission has been advised that complaints have been made by individuals and organizations in the Mexicali Valley of Mexico and by the Mexican Government that water of the Colorado River delivered to Mexico under the terms of the treaty entered into between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Treaty Series 994) is unduly saline; and Whereas Secretary of State Hull, in his report of February 9, 1944, transmitted to the U.S. Senate by President Roosevelt on February 15, 1944, when the treaty was submitted for ratification, said that such treaty would be serviced "from any and all sources, whether direct river flows, return flow or seepage"; and Whereas the economy of substantial communities and areas of national importance is founded upon and the continued existence of such communities and areas depends upon their use in perpetuity of the waters of the Colorado River assigned to them; and Whereas proposals have been made for the creation of a factfinding group, composed of qualified persons selected from each of the countries involved, with a view to recommending the adoption of such measures as are permissible in the light of existing obligations and rights; and Whereas it is hoped that a program may be worked out which, through the concurrent action of their respective governments, will lead to such improvement as will be conducive to the continued good relations of the two countries, without prejudice to the existing rights and obligations of either of them. Now, therefore, be it and it is hereby resolved: (1) The Arizona Interstate Stream Commission urges upon the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Interior, that solutions to such salinity problems as have arisen in the Mexicali Valley, Mexico, be sought strictly within the limits of the existing treaty. (2) In the light of existing uses in the United States of America, upon which substantial economies of national importance are founded and in the light of prospective uses required to preserve existing economies in the Colorado River Basin States, the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission recommends that the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Interior, adhere firmly to the position that there shall be no increase in the quantiEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 6,154,240 byte