Equity and the Colorado River Compact
Equity and the Colorado River Compact
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公平与科罗拉多河契约
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2012
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D. Kenney
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J. Robison;D. Kenney
科罗拉多河和管理其流量的复杂法律体系（“河流法”）正处于关键时刻，水的供应和需求之间的巨大不平衡促使人们做出各种努力来评估和重新思考科罗拉多河的治理。科罗拉多大学法学院的科罗拉多河治理倡议（CRGI）就是这样一个努力。阐述CRGI的研究在过去的两年半里，这篇文章的重点是州际契约构成的河流法的基础，科罗拉多河契约，接近水分配方案建立了这个契约作为一个中心的重要性，在当前的努力，以航行的河流的未来。躺在契约的基础是一个公平的承诺-“公平的分工和分配使用的科罗拉多河系统的沃茨”-源于本文追求的一个基本问题：在多大程度上契约的分配方案履行这一承诺，以公平的现有形式？在提供了契约的初步概述后，文章认为“公平”的含义是一种规范，为随后审查流域的水供应和需求以及涉及契约关键术语的长期解释争议奠定了基础。这一研究揭示了与契约的分配方案的组成和为其设计的治理结构相关的几个与股权相关的问题。框架这一讨论是我们的观点，契约的承诺，公平是一个古老的，并在这一部分提出的问题需要在正在进行的对话中解决有关科罗拉多河治理，以履行这一承诺在当代。
The Colorado River and the elaborate body of laws governing its flows (“Law of the River”) are at critical juncture, with a formidable imbalance between water supplies and demands prompting diverse efforts to evaluate and to think anew about Colorado River governance. One such effort is the Colorado River Governance Initiative (CRGI) at the University of Colorado Law School. Incorporating CRGI research undertaken over the past two-and-a-half years, this Article focuses on the interstate compact constituting the foundation of the Law of the River, the Colorado River Compact, approaching the water apportionment scheme established by this compact as a subject of central importance in current efforts to navigate the future of the river. Lying at the base of the compact is a commitment to equity – “equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System” – stemming from which this Article pursues a fundamental question: To what extent does the compact’s apportionment scheme fulfill this commitment to equity in its existing form? After providing an initial overview of the compact, the Article considers the meaning of “equity” as a norm, setting the stage for a subsequent examination of water supplies and demands in the basin and longstanding interpretive disputes involving the compact’s key terms. This examination reveals several equity-related concerns associated with the composition of the compact’s apportionment scheme and the governance structure devised for it. A discussion of these concerns occupies the final Part of the Article. Framing this discussion is our perspective that the compact’s commitment to equity is a venerable one, and that the concerns raised in this Part need to be addressed in ongoing dialogue about Colorado River governance in order to fulfill this commitment in contemporary times.