Patricia Schroeder: “I am terribly concerned about what this does on the Colorado Water…”

On the recordMarch 2, 1995

I am terribly concerned about what this does on the Colorado Water Compact. The Colorado Water Compact has been around for almost 90 years. We are obviously upstream and there are many States downstream that count on us to send allocations to them... The person who was in the State from Nevada was saying this would be a wonderful thing for Nevada because they could then go tempt Colorado water people to sell water to Nevada, which means our State then would not have any water. They could sell it to the highest bidder. Here is the problem, the way I read this, is there is nothing that the Secretary of Interior could do that would be right. If the Secretary of Interior would move to stop private water owners from selling their property... then the property owner would be able to get the Federal Government to pay all of that.

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Patricia Schroeder

Colorado

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing concerns about the implications of the Colorado Water Compact during a committee meeting.

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Patricia Schroeder: “I am terribly concerned about what this does on the Colorado Water Compact. The Colorado Water Compact has been around…”

Editor's note · Context