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PART FOUR: Solutions, Climate Adaptation, Sustainibility and Resilence

Whereas water is life; it is a precious, life-giving resource;

Whereas water is sacred; it is valued for spiritual, cultural, and ecological purposes as well as for sustaining human populations and economies;

Whereas water is foundational to the identities of tribes in the Basin and provides an intrinsic connection to their wellbeing and homelands;

Whereas water in the Colorado River system is essential to urban and rural communities; municipal, agricultural, industrial, recreational, and other uses; and to more than 40 million people in two countries, seven states, and [30] sovereign Indian nations, and;

Whereas natural and cultural resource conservation are connected. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the next framework to govern the Colorado River system should:

• Promote and support the sustainable, resilient use of the River system for people and the rest of nature;
• Ensure the spiritual, cultural, and ecological integrity of the River system while providing water for human use and consumption;
• Equitably allocate water by considering the contemporary diversity of needs, interests, and priorities; historical use patterns; and the realities of drought and climate change;
• Promote and support reliable access to clean water for all residents of the Colorado River system;
• Leave the earth and its water systems better than we found them;
• Honor, respect, and realize the federal government’s trust responsibility toward the Basin’s tribes in a manner that acknowledges their sovereignty and human right to self-determination;
• Engage in collaboration as the action of first resort to develop policy and solve problems, and;
• Integrate traditional indigenous knowledge with western science to better understand the River system and the consequences of alternative management scenarios.

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• A Great Aridness: empty reservoirs in time-scales of decades, as will likely occur between now and 2060.
• Exceedance of spillway capacities: Five-month snowmelts greater than 30 million acre-feet, as in 1884, and 50 million as in 1862.
• The intentional storage of sediment in reservoirs: total sediment storage capacities greater than 50% will significantly impact the prime objectives of federal legislation, which are: navigation, water storage/regulation and flood control. This impact is happening now at small reservoirs, and will happen in the 22nd century for the larger reservoirs.

• Rapid Progradation of River Deltas Into Lake Powell, March 2002 to March 2004. Dohrenwend.
• Floods, Tamarisk, Drought: Recent and Future Changes Along the Colorado River. Dohrenwend.
• Decline and Fall of Lake Powell, March 2002 to March 2005: Impacts of Extended Drought on the Colorado Plateau. Dohrenwend.

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 RIGHTS OF NATURE

• Resources for Rights of Nature and Communitiy Organizing. OTC.

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• Family Farm Alliance - Colorado River Basin Water Management: Principles & Recommendations. 2015.
• Regenerative Agriculture by Climate Reality Project: Home Page

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PHILANTHROPY

• "We recommend transparent reporting of philanthropic spending related to collective action and conservation governance, and argue that foundations should explicitly consider and address legacies of exclusion for marginalised actors and groups." 
  • 2012 - Can philanthropy enable collective action to conserve rivers? Insights from a decade of collaboration in the Colorado River Basin. Gina Gilson and Dustin Garrick; Oxford.
    

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INCLUSIVENESS

• 2020 - Collaborative Governance and Stakeholder Participation in the Colorado River Basin: An Examination of Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion. Surabhi Karambelkar, University of Arizona; Andrea K. Gerlak, Udall Center.

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PERSPECTIVES FROM FROM THE TRIBES

Tribal Resources. OTC.

2012 - Basin Study Tribal Comments

• ITCA; Navajo Nation; Pascua Yaqui; Yavapai Apache;

2018 - Tribal Water Study of the Ten-Tribe Partnership (documents combined and starting with the press release). This study is a new feature for the 2012 Basin Study.

2020 - 7D Review Tribal Comments:

• Tribes of the Colorado River Basin; Collective Tribal Letter; Ak Chin Indian Community; Colorado River Indian Tribes; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation; Gila River Indian Community; Havasupai Tribe; Quechan Indian Tribe; San Carlos Apache Tribe; Tohono O'odham Nation; Yavapai Apache Nation;

2021 - Conference: Tribal Water Resilience in a Changing Environment. University of Arizona.

• Agenda with presentations: videos and powerpoints

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VISIONARY DISCUSSIONS & SCHOLARSHIP

• 2021 - Lessons from the Colorado River: Climate, Land, and Drought. A 75th Anniversary Lincoln Institute Dialogue.
• 2021 - Green Light for Adaptive Policies on the Colorado River (with supplementals). Fleck and Castle.

VISIONARY SCIENCE

• 2009 - Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate. Barnett and Pierce.
• 2017 - Debates—Hypothesis testing in hydrology: Pursuing certainty versus pursuing uberty. Baker.
• 2021 - Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future. Bradshaw et al.
• 2021 - Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues. Sutherland et al.

• 2021 - Water infrastructure for the 21st century: The viability of incorporating natural infrastructure in Bureau of Reclamation water management systems. Congressional Research Services.

• Homepage
• Press Release, Program Snapshot & Program Summary
• Full Report
• Appendix

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