Colorado River Foundational Principals

Investing Our Way Out of the Global Water Crisis (nature.org)
Water Share, Using Water Markets and impact investment to drive sustainability (Richter, nature.org)
As Precious as Blood: The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970

UCRC Upper Colorado River Division States Current and Future Depletion Demand Schedule

Joint West Slope Risk Study Update

Grand Valley Water Users Association 2017 Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Project (Gingrich)

Grand Valley Water Users Association Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Project (Harris)

Preserving the Colorado River Basin: A Q&A with Ted Kowalski (Walton Family Foundation)

Alternative Water Transfers In Colorado (EDF)

Nov 10 - White Paper 1: Fill Mead First: A Technical Assessement (Utah State)

Nov 5 - The General Revision and Forest Reserve Act of 1891 (Cooney)

Nov 11 - Arizona Water Grab Part One: Water Rights and Water Markets (Desert Water Grab)

2015

The water czar who reshaped Colorado River politics, Pat Mulroy Bio (HCN)

"intentionally created unused apportionment": gobbledygook for the greater good (inkstain)

The Impact Of The Loss Of Electric Generation at Glen Canyon Dam

Navajo Nation / State Of Utah Water Rights Settlement Agreement

Tribal Water Rights Settlements and Instream Flow Protection, DesRosier

Establishing and Preserving Tribal Water Rights in a Water Stressed West, Bovee (jstor)

The "Upper Basin Voluntary Demand Cap" as a Means of Mitigating Legal Uncertainty In The Colorado River Basin: Modeling Results(waterpolicy.info)

Liquid Assets - Investing for Impact in the Colorado River Basin (Squire Patton Boggs)

2014

Arizona v. California and the Equitable Apportionment of Interstate Waterways (Patashnik)

Bill Williams River Water Rights Settlement Act Of 2014

Restoring Sacred Waters - A Guide to Protecting Tribal Non-Consumptive Water Uses in the Colorado River Basin

Jul 30 - Pilot System Conservation Program Funding Agreement

Sep 29 - Over-allocation of the Colorado River: Now it Means Something by Brad Udall (YouTube)

Sep 29 - Over-allocation of the Colorado River: Now it Means Something by Brad Udall (slides)

Sep - Hazard's Toll, The Costs of Inaction at the Salton Sea (Pacific Institute)

Dec 9 - Colorado tells California: You're not using our water (Salt Lake Tribune)

2013

Cross-Boundary Water Transfers in the Colorado River Basin: A Review of Efforts and Issues Associated with Marketing Water Across State Lines or Reservation Boundaries

Water Transfers for a Changing Climate - Squillace (jstor)

Simon Rifkind's great mistake and the shortfall on the Colorado River (Fleck)

A Smashing Victory?: Was Arizona v. California a Victory for the State of Arizona? (SSRN)

Colorado River Cooperative Agreement (Colorado River District)

Colorado River Cooperative Agreement

Partial Final Judgment and Decree of the Water Rights of the Navajo Nation

Green Mountain Reservoir Administrative Protocol Agreement

Decision Flowcharts Based on the Interim Guidelines for the Operation of Lake Powell and Lake Mead

2012

Jan 2 - Risk Management Strategies for the Upper Colorado River Basin

Apr - Does the Upper Basin have a Delivery Obligation or an Obligation Not to Deplete the Flow of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry?

June - Colorado River Water Bank Feasibility Study Phase 1

Fall - Arizona v. California Revisited

Nov 11 - Equity and the Colorado River Compact (Robison, Kenney)

Dec - USBR Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study

Dec 12 - Yuma Area Tour for Arizona Legislature (Guenther)

What Seven States Can Agree to Do: Deal-Making on the Colorado River (Fleck)

Colorado River Basin Consumptive Uses and Losses Report 2001-2005 (USBR)

2011

The Colorado River and the Inevitability of Institutional Change (Kenney)

United States' Statement of Claims of Water Rights in the New Mexico San Juan River Basin on Behalf of the Navajo Tribe

Supplemental Partial Final Decree of the Water Rights of the Navajo Nation

2010

Rethinking the Future of the Colorado River

Navajo Nation San Juan Basin in New Mexico Water Rights Settlement Agreement of 2010

2009

How low will it go? Colorado may face a dry and difficult future of fighting for water, Eagle River Litigation (High Country News)

Navajo Nation Water Settlement & Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Acts of 2009

Bureaucratic Politics, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Animals-La Plata Project

2008

CWCB AG, Defense of the Colorado River Subunit

USRB Long Term Augmentation Report

Ocean Route Imports

An Analysis of the 1944 U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty: Its Past, Present, and Future (UC David, Umoff)

Management Strategies for the Colorado River Reservoir System under Major Drought Scenarios (Frevert & Fulp et al, $$ ASCE Library

Colorado River Water Use Since 1906 (USBR)

2007

From a Colorado River Compact Challenge to the Next Era of Cooperation Among Seven Basin States

Jan - CWCB Staff Recommendation - Colorado River 7-state Agreement Approval

April, Hydrological Determination (USBR)

Apr 23, Seven States Agreement Concerning Colorado River Management and Operations

Apr 30 - Basin States Comments on Interim Guidelines DEIS

June - Colorado River Updates (Seaholm, CWCB)

May 8 - The Colorado River, The Story of a Quest for Certainty on a Diminishing River

June, Technical Evaluation of Options for the Long-Term Augmentation of the Colorado River System

July 17 - Hobbs, Colorado River Compact Entitlements, Clearing up Misconceptions (U of Arizona)

Dec 7 - UCRC Upper Colorado River Division States Current and Future Depletion Demand Schedule

December, Record of Decision - Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead

Dec 10 - Arizona Water Settlement Agreement

Future Indian Water Settlements In Arizona: The Race To The Bottom Of The Waterhole? (Weldon, McKnight - Arizona Law Review)

2006

Jan 16 - Colorado River Basin Issues (Seaholm, CWCB)

Feb 6 - Seven States Letter, Development of Lower Basin Shortage Guidelines and Coordinated Management Strategies for Lake Mead and Lake Powell under Low Reservoir Conditions

Feb 6 - Seven States Preliminary Proposal Regarding Colorado River Interim Guidelines

Feb 6 - Seven States Draft Agreement

March - Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead - Scoping Summary Report (USBR)

Mar 13 - Water Supply Protection, Colorado River Discussions (Seaholm. CWCB)

Jun 9 - UCRC Resolution on Availability of Water

Aug 26 - Central Arizona Project Water Allocations

Nov 3 -Colorado River Future Consumptive Use Projections (Seaholm, CWCB)

Nov 15 - The Colorado River: New Operational Guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead (Fulp, Water Report)

Robert B Griffith Water Project, formerly Southern Nevada Water Project (Rogers, USBR)

2005

Jan 21 - 7 Basin State Technical Workgroup Meeting Notes

Mar/Apr - Upper Colorado River Basin Perspectives On the Drought, Southwest Hydrology (Ostler, University of Arizona)

Apr 18 - Letter Upper Basin States to Secretary Norton

May 2 - Letter Secretary Norton to Governor Huntsman

May 16 - Colorado River Compact Issues (Seaholm, CWCB)

Jun 8 - History of Colorado River Law, Development and Use: A Primer and Look Forward (Hobbs)

Sep 6 - Colorado River Compact Issues, Early Alternatives Matrix and USBR Modelling (Seaholm, CWCB)

The History of Large Federal Dams: Planning, Design and Construction

Doctrinal Anachronism? Revisiting the Pracicably Irrigable Acreage Standard

2004

Mar 24 - Investigation Into the Bureau of Reclamation's Animas-La Plata Project: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate (Requires Google Play)

Mar 24 - Investigation Into the Bureau of Reclamation's Animas-La Plata Project: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations (Amazon)

March - Adoption of an Interim 602(a) Storage Guideline Final Environmental Assessment

May 19 - Notice of Adoption of an Interim 602(a) Storage Guideline for Management of the Colorado River (Federal Register)

Jul 20 - CWCB Colorado River Workshop Handbook

Oct 7 - Upper Basin Letters to Secretary Norton, Lower Basin on Relief for Lake Powell

Oct 27 - Storage and Interstate Release Agreement (Contract No. 04-XX-30-W0430), 2004

Nov 8 - Colorado River Compact Issues (Seaholm, CWCB)

Dec 2 - Point Man on Western Water Is Stepping Down (LA Times)

Dec 10 - Gila River Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act of 2004

Dec 10 - Arizona Water Settlements Act, Public Law 108-451 108th Congress

2003

Jan 1 - An Upper Basin Perspective on California's Claims to Water from the Colorado River Part II: The Development, Implementation and Collapse of California's Plan to Live within Its Basic Apportionment (Lochhead)

Feb 28 - Imperial Irrigation District on Quantification Settlement Agreement(QSA)

Jun 18 - Central Arizona Project, AZ; water allocations and service contracting (vlex.com)

Jul 15 - Everyone Pays Price for Backroom Water Grab From Farmers (LA Times)

Sep 30 - Arizona Water Settlements Act Joint Hearing S.437

Oct 10 - Quantification Settlement Agreement

Oct 10 - Quantification Settlement Agreement JPA Creation and Funding

Oct 10 - Quantification Settlement Agreement (Wikipedia)

Oct 20 - Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement

Nov 26 - Animas-La Plata Project Construction Cost Estimate

2002

Storage and Interstate Release Agreement

Agreement for the Development of Intentionally Created Unused Apportionment

Boulder Dam: Origins of Siting and Design (Jackson)

Colorado River Interim Surplus Guidelines, Notice Regarding Implementation of Guidelines

Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West (Schulte, Amazon)

2001

Jan 25 - Colorado River Interim Surplus Guidelines (Federal Register))

An Upper Basin Perspective on California's Claims to Water from the Colorado River Part I: The Law of the River (Lochhead)

Dec 27 - Final Administrative Determination of Appropriate and Equitable Shares of the Yuma Mesa Division's Colorado River Water Entitlement for the North Gila Valley Unit, the South Gila Valley Unit, and the Mesa Unit of the Gila Project in Arizona (USBR)

Lee's Ferry, The Colorado River, and the Development of the Bureau of Reclamation, Kupel

Metropolitan Water on Californias Colorado River Qater User Plan (aka QSA)

Two Nations, One River: Managing Ecosystem Conservation in the Colorado River Delta (EDF, Pitt, Leucke)

2000

Arizona v. California 530 U.S. 392 (PDF)

Arizona v California Supplemental Decree (justia)

Arizona v California Supplemental Decree (leagle)

Arizona v California Supplemental Decree (Cornell)

Aug 8 - Colorado River Interim Surplus Criteria - Federal Register

Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement_Act Amendment

Historical Elevations of the Salton Sea 1904-1994

Colorado River Research Ancient Chronology

1854

Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers: accompanied by maps, sketches, views, and illustrations (Sitegreaves)

1868

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Navajo Tribe of Indians (navajo-nsn.gov)

1887

Indian General Allotment Act, aka Dawes Act (National Archives)

1891

The General Revision and Forest Reserve Act of 1891

1899

United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co., 174 U.S. 690 (Justia)

1900

The Conquest of Arid America (Smythe)

1902

Kansas v Colorado (Justia)

Reclamation Act

1905

United States v. Winans (University of Tulsa)

United_States v. Winans (PDF)

Profile of the Colorado River from the Dolores River to the Gulf of California Showing All Known Dam Sites

1908

Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (Justia)

1916

Colorado River and Its Utilization

1920

Federal Power Water Act

Kinkaid Act On Imperial Valley

1922

Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity (aka Fall-Davis Report)

Wyoming v Colorado (Justia)

Jun 20 - Flood Regulation on the Colorado River as Affected by the Existing and Proposed Works on the Gila River and its Tributaries

Colorado River Compact

Colorado River Commission Minutes

Colorado River relation of estimated irrigation development to water supply, 1878-1922 (Stabler, ASU)

Report of Delph E. Carpenter Commissioner for the State of Colorado In Re Colorado River Compact(Carpenter)

1923

Transcript of excerpt from testimony of William Mulholland before Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives (ASU)

Speech of Hon. Chas. H. Rutherford on the Colorado River Compact, Arizona State Senate (ASU)

Speech and replies of Hon. Fred T. Colter(AZ) on the Colorado River Compact, Arizona State Senate (ASU)

Arizona Governor Hunt's message on the Colorado River compact, and certified copy of the Colorado River compact

Why I oppose the Colorado River Compact / by George W. P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona (ASU)

Sep 24 - Statement before the Federal Power Commission by the Arizona Colorado River Conference Committee Concerning the Development and Utilization of the Resources of the Colorado River

The Colorado River compact without reservations, interpretations or amendments (Winsor)

AZ Senate Bill 136 Ratifying the Colorado Compact

1924

Jan 10 - Colorado River Development Letter from Governor Hunt to H. B. Hovland

Report on the Problems of the Colorado Basin, aka Weymouth Report (Print version in Library of Congress, Similar to Fall-Davis but more detailed per Eric Kuhn)

1925

Gov. Hunt Speech, Arizona's Viewpoint on the Colorado River (azlibrary.gov)

AZ Senate Resolution 8 proposing ratification of the Colorado Compact (azlibrary.gov)

Map of Colorado River Drainage Basin Below Greem River, Utah Showing undeveloped water-power sites and flood-control reservoir sites

1926

Sen. Cameron(AZ) All-gravity American Colorado River constructive plan (ASU)

Statement for upper Colorado River states regarding bill for Boulder Canon [i.e. Canyon] Dam, Swing-Johnson Bill, Delph Carpenter (ASU)

Speeches of Hon. Carl Hayden of Arizona : the Colorado River problem, the San Carlos Project, and the Colorado River Compact (ASU)

1927

The Swing-Johnson Bill, Bannister Reply to Sen. Phipps

Conference of Governors, Commissioners and Advisors of the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming on the Colorado River in Denver (ASU)

Feb 19 - Minority report committee appointed in accordance to Arizona Senate Bill no. 6 to oppose the passage of the Swing-Johnson Bill

May 31 - Why you should vote "Yes" on Propositions 100 and 102, Arizona

Oct 27 - Report of the Colorado River Commission of Arizona 1927

1928

Jan - Colorado River Basin, Senate Hearing S.728 and S.1274

Jan 31 - Gov Hunt, Colorado River and the Swing-Johnson Boulder Canyon Dam bill (ASU)

Mar 20 - Boulder Canyon Project Report, Accompanying S.728

Mar 26 - Carl Hayden to George H. Dern re: Reconvene Seven States governors at Denver (ASU)

Apr - Denver Water's Bannister on Colorado River Problem

Apr 24 - Boulder Canyon, House Rules Hearing

Sep 24 - Report of Colorado River Board on the Boulder Canyon Project to the Secretary of the Interior (ASU)

Sep 26 - Carl Hayden to the governors of the states of the Upper Basin of the Colorado River (ASU)

Nov 24 - Report of Colorado River Board on the Boulder Canyon Project to the Secretary of the Interior (ASU)

Dec 3 - Colorado River Board Siebert

Dec 10 - Colorado River Development (Senate)

Dec 11 - Boulder Canyon Debate transcript

Dec 21 - Boulder Canyon Project Act

Dec 22 - Carl Hayden to Hon. A. H. Favour re: Boulder Canyon Dam Act Passage (ASU)

Dec 31 - Second Report of the Colorado River Commission of Arizona

The Colorado River Question - Shall Natural Resources Create Local or Enlarge Distant Development?

1929

Mar 4 - California Limitation Act

Aug 1 - Explanation of terms in the Colorado River controversy between Arizona and California (Ward)

Aug 16 - Arizona's Rights in the Colorado River - Proposals of Arizona and the Counter Proposals of California Submitted to the Tri-State Conference (Favour)

1930

William D. Mitchell, Department of Justice, to Carl T. Hayden re: Hydroelectric power contracts (ASU)

Colorado River Development and Related Problems (Dykstra, jstor)

Major Engineering Problems, Colorado River Development (Weymouth, jstor)

1931

Aug 18 - Seven Party Agreement

State of Arizon v State of California et al

Nov 11 - Memorandum from Thomas Maddock to Governor Hunt, Mr. Wood, and Mr. Pattee re: Colorado River and Boulder Dam

1933

The Hoover Dam Documents, Wilbur & Ely (No electronic version found)

1935

Statements from Lower Basin to L. Ward Bannister (Denver Water)

S 2811 : an act to authorize and adopt certain public works projects for controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of certain streams of the United States, and for other purposes (ASU)

1937

Senate Document 80, Colorado Big Thompson

1938

Waters of the Colorado, Partial (Tipton)

1939

Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (USBR)

Arizona v California (Brandeis)

1940

Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment_Act

Forecast of inflow of Colorado River into Lake Mead at Boulder Dam, 1939 (Debler AGU$$)

1942

Memoranda on Behalf of the Committee of the Fourteen on Apportionment

1943

April - Committee of Fourteen, Santa Fe

Nov 13 - Letter, Mexican water treaty : Cordell Hull to Carl T. Hayden

1944

Jan 7 - The Matropolitann Water District, Repayment Contracts, Boulder Canyon Project

Feb 9 - Boulder Canyon Project contract for delivery of water to Arizona

Mar 16 - Letter, Mexican water treaty : Sidney P. Osborn to Franklin D. Roosevelt (ASU)

Mar 18 - The Secretary of the Interior (Ickes) to President Roosevelt (State Dept)
Mar 20 - Statement on Behald of California summarizing some of the reasons for opposition to proposed treaty with Mexico relating to the Colorado River

Mar 25 - Water Treaty Between the United States and Mexico, Charles Timm

March - Memorandum on Proposed Treaty With Mexico, Royce Tipton (26 MB)

March - Memorandum on Proposed Treaty With Mexico Supplement, Royce Tipton

Apr 3 - The Secretary of State to President Roosevelt (State Dept)

Apr 5 - Letter to Cordell Hull by Charles A. Carson 1944, Why Arizona Wants Mexico Treaty

May 15 - The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Interior, Ickes (State Dept)

Jun 7 - The Secretary of the Interior (Ickes) to President Roosevelt (State Dept)

Jul 17 - The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Interior, Ickes (State Dept)

Aug 14 - The Secretary of the Interior (Ickes) to the Secretary of State (State Dept)

Aug 29 - Six States Committee supporting ratification of the proposed treaty between the United States and Mexico

Sep 7 - Carson Report, Colorado River Commission of Arizona

Sep 14 - Memorandum on 1929 Pan American Treaty, Jean Breitenstein

Sep 20 - Memorandum Concerning Proposed Treaty Between U.S. and Mexico, Jean Breitenstein

Feb 3 & Nov 14 - Treaty Series 994, Utilization Of Waters Of The Colorado And Tijuana Rivers And Of The Rio Grande, Treaty Between THE United States of America and Mexico

Nov 15 - The Pending Mexican Treaty, A Sound Solution to a Difficult Problem

1945

January - Senate Hearings Water Treaty With Mexico

Mar 5 - George Smith Letter To Reclamation

Mar 17 - Herbert Hoover Letter on Mexico Treaty

Apr 20 - Translations of Statements Released by the Mexican Government Relative to the Water Treaty Between the United States and Mexico (ASU)

1946

Light on the Mexican Water Treaty, Ely

The Colorado River (A Natural Menace Becomes a National Resource)

Colorado Comments on Colorado River Report

1947

Bridge Canyon Project, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of Irrigation and Reclamation on S. 1175

S 1175 : a bill authorizing the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon, together with certain appurtenant dams and canals, and for other purposes (ASU)

1948

The Hoover Dam Documents, Wilbur & Ely

Colorado River Water Rights, Senate Hearing

Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commission - Volume 1 - Meetings 1-5

Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commission - Volume 2 - Meetings 6-11

Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commission - Volume 3 - Engineering

Upper Colorado River Basin Compact

1949

March-May - Central Arizona Project and Colorado River Water Rights S.75

March-May - Central Arizona Project, House Hearing H.R. 934 and 935

March - The Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Hearings

Bridge Canyon Project Report (ASU)

1950

Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts, Wilbur & Ely

The Water Seekers (Public Domain Book)

Interim Report on Reconnaissance (USBR)

California and the Colorado River (Desky)

1951

Jan 21 - Colorado River Basin States Committee Proceedings

Feb 16 - Interstate Water Compacts and Their Relation to Basin Developmenat, Royce Tipton

Mar 13 - Interstate Water Compacts, Clifford Stone

April, Public Comments on CRSP (CWCB)

May 29 - Congressional Record, CAP Authorization, S.75 on page 5917

May 31 - Congressional Record, CAP Authorization, S.75 on page 5974

Mar 12 - Bridge Canyon Project Report (ASU)

1952

Colorado River Basin States Committee

Report of Policy and Review Committee Gunnison River Storage (CWCB)

South San Juan Project (USBR)

Short bio of Clifford Stone, CWCB Director and Chair of Seven States Committee

McCarran Amendment, Suits for adjudication of water rights 66 Stat. 650. 43 U.S. Code 666 (Cornell)

1953

Memorandum Supplement to Water Supply of the Lower Colorado River Basin Project Planning Report November 1952

Fryingpan-Arkansas Project

Curecanti Report, Colorado Water Supply

Supplemental Report On Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects

Northern Water Legal Matters

1954

Brief of the State of Colorado and the State of Wyoming opposing the motion of the State of California to join the states of Colorado and Wyoming as parties to this action (CU Law)
Reasonable Use by Reasonable Men, Policy and Legal Aspects in the Solution of California's Water Problem (Kennedy)

Colorado's Water Future (Breitenstein)

Colorado River Storage Project Senate Subcommittee S.500

Colorado River Storage Project House Subcommittee H.R.4449, H.R.4443, H.R.4463

Colorado River Storage Project Amendments

Colorado River Storage Project: Letter from Assistant Secretary of the Interior Transmitting a Report on the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects

Central Arizona Project Association Press Release

Address by Secretary of Interior McKay

Dolores Project Status Report (USBR, Partial)

Nov - Report on the Colorado reach, Parker, Palo Verde, & Cibola Valleys of the Colorado River