AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL PROGRAM

Western Journal of Agricultural Economics

Figure 1. Source: Resources, No. 80, Spring 1985, a quarterly publication of Resources for the
Future, Washington, D.C.

both natural and man-made sources. USBR
has obtained the assistance of the Soil
Conservation Service (SCS) to implement
on-farm assistance programs planned for
ten units. (A desalting plant, which will
treat saline drainage water from an irri-
gation district in Arizona prior to the

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water’s release to Mexico, is also funded
under the program. This investment is not
analyzed here.)

Economic appraisal of Colorado River
Basin salinity control began with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s (1971)
analysis. Anderson and Kleinman sum-

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