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SALINITY PROBLEMS-LOWER COLORADO RIVER 27 Mexico and stating that as developments proceed in the United States it will be increasingly important that the amounts and deliveries set out in the Mexican Water Treaty be firmly adhered to. Resolutions adopted by several bodies of the basin states and comments by state representatives at various times have strongly stated the view that nothing should be done which would result in a waste of water to the Gulf of California not charged to Mexico under the Treaty and thereby becoming an additional burden on the water supply of the Colorado River System. According to this view any drainage water from the United States projects that might be bypassed around Morelos Dam by an artificial channel should still be chargeable to Mexico in accordance with the Treaty schedules. Evidently the United States and Mexican advisory panels have been unable to agree upon a solution for the problem at the boundary, or even upon a joint report. It is understood that the United States panel has submitted a unilateral report to the State Department, but the contents of the report have not been made public. It appears however that the Secretary of the Interior has been requested to undertake a comprehensive and intensive engineering investigation and study with the objective of devising, if possible, a plan of construction and operation of facilities that will effect a permanent solution to the water quality problem at the international boundary acceptable to all affected interests. In the meantime the United States Commissioner of Reclamation has announced that by encroaching to a minor extent on the flood control reservation in Lake Mead during the month of April 1962, the Bureau has accumulated about 280,000 acre-feet of water which otherwise would have been wasted and which is committed to use during the winter months of 1962-1963 for much-needed channel control and rectification work on the Lower Colorado River. It was also stated that the necessary hydraulic sluicing and flushing could be co-ordinated with the low delivery schedules to Mexico and thus incidentally serve to dilute, to a usable salt concentration, the winter flows crossing the Mexican boundary. Details as to how this incidental benefit would be effected have not been furnished.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 9,955,328 byte