Contested Waters: An Environmental History of the Colorado River

Index

275 Index Adams, Ansel, 64 aesthetics, of nature, 64, 76 Agenda 21, 88, 96 Agreement between the United States of America and the United Mexican States on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area (La Paz Agreement), 194 agriculture, ix–x, xiii, 9, 21, 185, 223, 242; Arizona, 125, 236; Indian, 151–52, 154; irrigated, 22–23, 24, 38–41, 56(n40), 94, 95, 125; Mexicali and Imperial Valleys, 12, 130–31, 186; salinity and pollutants, 36–37, 187–91; water rights transfers, 100, 116, 127, 129; water use, 98, 136 Agua Fria River, 126 aircraft industry, 43 Ak-Chin Reservation, 160, 167 Page numbers in italic indicate illustrations. Akimel O’odham (Pima), 125, 151–52, 155, 159 Álamo, Río, 12, 180, 181 Alarcón, Hernando de, 6, 127 Albuquerque, 238 All-American Canal, 17, 20, 21, 38, 115, 130, 181, 182, 184, 190; lining of, 131, 191, 214, 217 Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado biosphere preserve, 193 American Land Company, 180 American Rivers, endangered rivers list, 103 American Water Works, 220 Andrade, Guillermo, 12, 130, 180, 181 Animas–La Plata Project, 161, 168–69 aqueducts, 74, 128; to Los Angeles, 22, 118–19; to San Diego, 115–16 Arizona, 7, 16, 167; Central Arizona Project, 46–51, 69–74, index 276 94–95, 210; Colorado River allocation, 17–19, 20, 21, 22, 51, 179, 240; and Grand Canyon dams, 157–58; hydroelectric power, ix, 45–46; irrigated agriculture in, 32, 33, 34, 36, 56(n40); Navajo water rights, 164–66; water rights, 22, 37, 38, 42, 43–45, 119; water transfers, 212–13; water use, 36, 40–41, 97, 236–37 Arizona Groundwater Management Act, 160 Arizona Interstate Stream Commission, 47 Arizona National Guard, and Praker dam, 22 Arizona Power Authority, 47 Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, 137 Arizona v. California, 41, 48–51, 162, 166, 210 Arizona Water Banking Authority, 212, 222 Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act, 161 Armijo, Antonio, 132 Army Corps of Engineers, Tres Rios Constructed Wetlands, 126 arsenic, in groundwater, 164 Ashurst, Henry, 184, 200(n29) Aspinall, Wayne, 23, 75; and Central Arizona Project, 69, 70, 73; Upper Colorado River Basin Storage Project, 52–54, 67 Aspinall Unit, 62 Audubon Society, 65 Australia, water marketing, 208 Aztec (N.M.), 164 Azurix Corporation, 220 Babbitt, Bruce, on water policy, 98–99, 100 Baggley, George F., 157 Baja California, 6, 132, 180, 182, 184, 185, 199(n7); Colorado River water, 18, 179; farmers’ activism in, 188–89; mining in, 127–29. See also Mexicali; Tijuana Barr, Burton W., on CAP, 94–95 Bartlett Dam, 126 Basic Magnesium, Incorporated (BMI), 133 beach habitat, in Grand Canyon, 99 Bee River, 181 biosphere preserves, 193 Black Canyon, 20, 62 Blake, William P., 11–12 Bloomfield, 164 Blue Mesa Dam, 62 Blue Ridge Dam, 126 Blythe, Thomas Henry, 12 BMI. See Basic Magnesium, Incorporated Bonneville Unit, 91 bonytail, 63, 103 Border Sanitation and Wastewater Quality Summit, 195 Border XXI Program, 194 Border 2012, 194–95 Border 2020, 195 Bosque Redondo, 150 Boulder Canyon, 62; dam planned for, 17, 20–21 Boulder Canyon Bill, 19–20 Boulder Canyon Project Act, 20, 42, 49, 50, 131 Bracero Program, 186 Brady, Brian J., 221 Bridge Canyon, proposed dam at, 47, 69, 70, 71–72, 157 Brock Reservoir, Warren H., 196–97, 217–18 Brower, David, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72 Brundtland, Gro Harlem, 88 Brundtland Report, 88 Burch, Leonard, 169 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 103, 151, 154 Bureau of Reclamation, xiii, 40, 47, 52, 73, 75, 87, 89, 99, 100, 119, 134, 162, 194, 242; basin-wide planning, 238, 239; canal projects, 115, 191, 217; changes in, 92, 93, 96–97; dam projects, 15–17, 22–23, 66; environmental impact studies , 239–40; and Indian nations, 157, 163–64; irrigation projects, 24, 38; Hopi-Navajo water rights settlement, 240–41; project costs, 44–45; selenium contamination program, 102–3; water conservation policies, 196–97; water sources, 210, 211; Wellton-Mohawk Project, 76–77, 187–88 Cadillac Desert (Reisner), xi, 88–89 Cadiz Water Project, 220 Cahuilla, Lake, 11–12 Calexico, 130 California, 7, 41, 43, 46, 98, 119; Arizona v. California, 49–51; canal lining project, 131–32, 191; and Central Arizona Project, 47–51, 74, 156; Colorado River allocation, 17–19, 20, 21–22, 179, 240; and Colorado River Storage Project, 67–69; drought, 89, 96; hydroelectric power, ix , 16–17; irrigated agriculture in, 32, [3.143.244.83] Project...