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Navajo Water Settlement & San Joaquin River Settlement advance to full Senate

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 7, 2008 at 12:30 pm

Busy day for the Senate Energy & Natural Resources committee in Washington today, apparently. From John Fleck at Inkstain:

The bill, S.1171, would guarantee 600,000 acre feet per year of water rights to the Navajo Nation, and also fund a water pipeline that would run across the Navajo Nation from the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico down to Gallup. The trick has always been figuring out a way to pay for it.

Yeah, isn’t that always the case …. find out more by taking the link from John Fleck’s blog – click here.

And from Stockton’s Record:

The [San Joaquin River restoration] legislation, which still must pass the full House and Senate, would implement a legal settlement that would return water to a dry 60-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River by 2009 and bring back Chinook salmon three years later.

Read the full text of this article from Stockton’s Record by clicking here.

May 7, 2008 · Filed Under Indian Water Rights, San Joaquin River Restoration

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