Abstract
Imagine a business partner with a $1.5 million annual partnership debt suddenly announcing to the other partner that he has no obligation to pay his share of the debt, and you can envision the reactions of Arizona, California, and Nevada to a similar statement by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. On October 7, 2004, those four States declared: "The Upper Basin has no obligation in this regard," thereby disavowing their responsibility to share in the 1.5 million acre-feet ("MAE") annual Colorado River water debt owed to Mexico pursuant to an international treaty and an interstate compact. The seven Colorado River Basin States ("Basin States") have been working together since to resolve this challenge involving a river compact signed eighty-five years ago.
How to Cite
49 Ariz. L. Rev. 217 (2007)
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