Just forwarding this along
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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
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