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How did the 1972 agreement address the salinity of Colorado River water delivered to Mexico?
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Colorado River, near San Luis, Mex.
The 1972 international agreement addressed the salinity of Colorado River water delivered to Mexico by initiating specific mitigation strategies across the river's basin.
To manage the salt content, the agreement led to the following actions:
- Lower Basin: Implementation of desalinization experiments to improve water quality.1
- Upper Basin: Development of irrigation management practices and the construction of projects specifically designed for the disposal of saline water.1
These measures were part of broader efforts to resolve long-standing controversies between the United States and Mexico regarding the quality of water reaching the Gulf of California.1