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El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
2009
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- The All-American Canal Lining Dispute: An American Resolution over Mexican Groundwater Rights? Alfonso A. Cortez Lara Megan K. Donovan Scott Whiteford Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) All Mexicali Valley litigation process agricultural water users Transboundary water conflicts Recently, resistance to the All-American Canal Lining Project came from both sides of the border as a coalition of economic and environmental groups which used the United States legal system in an attempt to block the loss of water upon which a fragile ecosystem and Mexican farmersdepend. Ultimately, the Lining Project was given official sanction by the US Congress following only superficial consultation with Mexico. This article examines and contrasts the legal framework within which the decision was made with popular understandings and explanationsof the process as held by the Mexicali Valleys water managers. With important implications for future compensation claims and cross-border dispute resolution, it concludes that the decisionto litigate in US courts did not formally include a key group, the agricultural water users of the Mexicali Valley. Nevertheless, the decision about the management of what had been understood by many, on both sides of the border, as a binational resource was made by the United States. 2009 artículo científico 0187-7372 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=13604106 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=136 Frontera Norte application/pdf El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Frontera Norte (México) Num.41 Vol.21