Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribes in the Colorado River Basin

Tanana, Heather; García, Jaime Lora; Olaya, Ana; Colwyn, Chelsea; Larsen, Hanna; Williams, Ryan; King, J. W.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3919166

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“…Tribes along the lower main stem (Colorado River Indian Tribes and Quechan tribe) have recently produced a series of videos titled, "One River, One Mission, One Voice: Protecting the Colorado River" to urge a new vision for basin stewardship (Ten Tribes Partnership., 2021). A Water and Tribes Initiative (Tanana et al, 2021) has prepared a report calling for Universal Access to Providing Clean Water for Tribes in the Colorado River Basin, which draws attention to longstanding deficiencies in safe domestic water supplies on reservations. These inter-tribal initiatives call for a different approach, one that encompasses and transcends historical institutional levels of water management in the basin-one that regards the river in some respects as a person, as sacred, and as alive-views considered in the discussion section below (Water Tribes Initiative, 2020).…”

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Institutional levels of water management in the Colorado River basin region: A macro-historical geographic review

Wescoat

2023

Front. Water

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Complex water-stressed basins like the Colorado River in North America have multiple institutional levels of water management. Each institutional level is characterized by rules, organizations, and spatial jurisdictions that developed over decades to centuries to shape a dynamic multi-level system. After introducing the concept of institutional levels, and its relationship to geographic scales, this paper employs systematic bibliographic search methods to review their development in the Colorado River basin region. Results begin with the community level of water management from prehistoric Indian water cultures to early Hispanic water communities, 19th century water communities, and 20th century water organizations. Conflict among water communities shaped the state level of constitutional authority over water rights administration during the 19th century. Competition among states led in the 20th century to the interstate level of apportionment that often paralleled federal and tribal level water development policies, eventually leading to the international level of treaty relations between the U.S. and Mexico. This macro-historical geographic progression from institutions that were relatively small in size and early in time to those at higher levels and more recent in time offers insights into the multi-level institutional logic of the “law of the river” in the Colorado River basin region.

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Section: Federal Level Water Institutionsmentioning

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Institutional levels of water management in the Colorado River basin region: A macro-historical geographic review

Wescoat

2023

Front. Water

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“…La vulnerabilidad a las inundaciones, incluso en áreas urbanizadas, tiende a concentrarse en vecindarios históricamente marginados y socioeconómicamente desfavorecidos 130 . Cada vez hay más consenso en que las comunidades sistemáticamente desfavorecidas han sido y seguirán siendo las más afectadas por estos peligros, debido a factores como vigilancia climática/hidrológica inadecuada, mantenimiento diferido de las infraestructuras y acceso insuficiente a los recursos de recuperación 207 .…”

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