The history of the Rio Grande since the late nineteenth century
reflects the evolution of water-resource management in the West. It
was here that the earliest interstate and international
water-allocation problems pitted irrigators in southern New Mexico
against farmers downstream in El Paso and Juarez, with the
voluntary resolution of that conflict setting important precedents
for national and international water law.
In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law
along the Rio Grande, Douglas R. Littlefield describes those early
interstate and international water- apportionment conflicts and
explains how they relate to the development of western water law
and policy and to international relations with Mexico. Littlefield
embraces environmental, legal, and social history to offer clear
analyses of appropriation and riparian water rights doctrines,
along with lucid accounts of court cases and laws. Examining events
that led up to the 1904 settlement among U.S. and Mexican
communities and the formation of the Rio Grande Compact in 1938,
Littlefield describes how communities grappled over water issues as
much with one another as with governmental authorities.
"Conflict on the Rio Grande" reveals the transformation of
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century law, traces changing
attitudes about the role of government, and examines the ways these
changes affected the use and eventual protection of natural
resources. Rio Grande water policy, Littlefield shows, represents
federalism at work--and shows the West, in one locale at least,
coming to grips with its unique problems through negotiation and
compromise.
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