@article{376a11899b5a47afa7099c499381b5f7,
title = "Shipping water across the US–Mexico border: international governance dimensions of desalination for export",
abstract = "New public–private desalination projects along the Mexico–United States boundary have the potential to strengthen water security in this arid region. International bulk water commerce in this region is unprecedented and constrained by existing international agreements and regulations. This problem is examined from a multilevel governance perspective, focusing on two desalination projects with near-term export potential in Rosarito, Baja California, and Puerto Pe{\~n}asco, Sonora. These projects add to the array of agencies and procedures in binational water management but will not displace the International Boundary and Water Commission, which is sure to have a role in managing such projects.",
keywords = "Colorado River, IBWC, NAFTA, United States-Mexico border, Water export, desalination",
author = "Mumme, {Stephen P.} and Jamie McEvoy and Nicolas Pineda and Margaret Wilder",
note = "Funding Information: Puerto Pe{\~n}asco–Arizona. Another desalination-for-export project, one that has not advanced as quickly as Rosarito, is focused on Puerto Pe{\~n}asco, Sonora. Envisioned in 2008 as a solution to the spectre of water scarcity in the rapidly growing port city in the upper Gulf of California, an area experiencing a boom in tourism and tourist-led development (Wilder et al., 2012), the project attracted US interest for its proximity to the lower Colorado River basin and southern Arizona (McEvoy & Wilder, 2012). Two studies, one funded by the US Trade and Development Association and another promoted by the Arizona-Mexico Commission, advanced the idea of a pipeline running north of Puerto Pe{\~n}asco to San Luis Rio Colorado to discharge to the US Bureau of Reclamation reservoir at Imperial Dam (Wilder et al., 2016). Such a pipeline, spanning a distance of 168 miles (roughly 130 miles to the international line), is an ambitious project. The Arizona-Mexico Commission study projected an output of 120,000 acre-feet of water annually, costing as much as USD 2727 per acre-foot, part of which could be sold to southern or central Arizona water interests (HDR, 2009). The Central Arizona Project, which supplies Colorado River water to Arizona{\textquoteright}s largest cities, Phoenix and Tucson, and the Salt River Project co-funded the Puerto Pe{\~n}asco desalination feasibility study and are Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 International Water Resources Association.",
year = "2017",
month = oct,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1080/02508060.2017.1373320",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "42",
pages = "777--793",
journal = "Water International",
issn = "0250-8060",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "7",
}