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NFC: Fw: [Updates] ACTION ALERT! Commission on Environmental Cooperation to Decide Fate of Upper San Pedro River!
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From: "Suzy McDowell" <smcdowell at amrivers_org>
To: "Updates List Member" <robertrice at juno_com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:31:34 -0400
Subject: [Updates] ACTION ALERT! Commission on Environmental Cooperation
to Decide Fate of Upper San Pedro River!
Message-ID: <MDAEMON-F199906231632.AA322490MD98886 at amrivers_org>
ATTENTION RIVER LOVERS! NORTH AMERICAN COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL
COOPERATION (CEC) POISED TO DECIDE FATE OF THE UPPER SAN PEDRO RIVER!
URGE CAROL BROWNER, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE US EPA AND US REPRESENTATIVE TO
THE
CEC, TO SAVE THE UPPER SAN PEDRO RIVER FROM BEING SUCKED DRY! CONTACT
INFORMATION BELOW
At its June 27-29 meeting in Alberta, Canada, the three-member governing
council of the CEC, which includes US Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Carol Browner, will discuss the San Pedro Expert Team's
final
report on the San Pedro Initiative and make recommendations regarding
what
should be done to help preserve the river and its habitat. To read the
full
report, visit http://www.cec.org/english/new/experte.cfm?format=1. To see
the agenda of the conference and more information about the CEC, visit
http://www.cec.org.
Highly valued for its biological diversity and importance for neotropical
migrating birds, the Upper San Pedro River - featured in America's Most
Endangered Rivers of 1999 - is threatened by the rapid depletion of the
regional aquifer that maintains the river's year-round flows. For more
information on the Upper San Pedro River and the threats it faces, see
American Rivers' Most Endangered Rivers Report of 1999 online at
http://www.amrivers.org/99sanpedro.html.
If the Upper San Pedro River is to be saved, Carol Browner and the other
members of the CEC's governing council must endorse recommendations for
aggressive strategies that reduce existing water consumption levels,
promote
water conservation initiatives, and endorse growth management efforts in
the
Upper San Pedro River Basin. The recommendations must also include the
development of a bi-national water management plan and the creation of a
basin-wide authority to carry out this management plan.
Contact information for Carol Browner:
Carol Browner, EPA Administrator
401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460
202-260-4700, public-access at epamail_epa.gov
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Suzy McDowell
Outreach Coordinator
American Rivers
1025 Vermont Ave, NW, #720
Washington, DC 20005
202-347-7550 x3040
smcdowell at amrivers_org