International Water Law Project

State Practice in the Management and Allocation of Transboundary
Groundwater Resources in North America

18 Yearbook of Int'l Envt'l L. 2007 96 (2008)
G. Eckstein & A. Harberger

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The following contains the agreements and arrangements discussed in the article:

Transboundary arrangements between Mexico and the United States

• Minute 242 of the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary Waters Commission


• Minute 289 of the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary Waters Commission


• Agreement between the United States of America and the United Mexican States on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area, signed in La Paz, Mexico, 14 August 1983 (with Annex)

Transboundary arrangements between subnational units in Mexico and the United States

• Memorandum of Understanding between the Junta Municipal de Agua y Saneamiento de Juarez, Chihuahua (JMAS) (City of Juarez Utilities) and the El Paso Water Utilities Public Services Board (PSBP), of the City of El Paso, Texas

Transboundary arrangements between Canada and the United States

• 1909 Treaty between the United States and Great Britain Relating to Boundary Waters, and Questions Arising between the United States and Canada


• 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

Transboundary arrangements between subnational units in Canada and the United States

• 1992 Environmental Cooperation Agreement between the Province of British Columbia and the State of Washington and British Columbia/Washington Initiative


• 1995 Interagency Memorandum of Understanding between the State of Washington Department of Ecology Eastern Regional Office and the Province of British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks Kootenay Region


• Memorandum of Agreement Related to Referral of Water Right Applications between the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the Province of British Columbia Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks (October 10, 1996)


• Arrangements related to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin


• 1985 Great Lakes Charter: Principles for the Management of Great Lakes Water Resources


• The Great Lakes Charter Annex, A Supplementary Agreement to the Great Lakes Charter (June 18, 2001)


• Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement (December 13, 2005)


• Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (December 13, 2005)

Implementing Legislation by U.S. States of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
River Basin Water Resources Compact

Illinois - Signed by Governor Blagojevich August 17, 2007 Public Law House Bill 0375 (Passed March 29, 2007) Senate Bill 0050 (Passed April 25, 2007) Indiana - Signed by Governor Daniels February 20, 2008 Senate Bill 0045 (Passed January 17, 2008) House Bill 1060 (Passed January 24, 2008) Michigan Senate Bill 212 (Passed May 14, 2008) House Bill 4343 (Passed May 14, 2008) House Bill 4336 Minnesota - Signed by Governor Pawlenty February 20, 2007 Minnesota Session Laws 2007--Chapter 2 HF 110 (Passed February 1, 2007) SF 38 (Passed February 15, 2007)

New York - Signed by Governor Spitzer March 4, 2008 A7266 (Passed February 11, 2008) S4324 (Passed February 4, 2008) Ohio - Signed by Governor Strickland June 27, 2008 HB 416 (Passed House February 19, 2008; Passed Senate June 10, 2008) Pennsylvania HB1705 (Passed House January 28, 2008) HB 1705 (Passed Senate July 3, 2008) Wisconsin - Signed by Governor Doyle May 27, 2008 SB 1--Special Session (Passed Senate May 14, 2008) SB 1--Special Session (Passed House May 14, 2008)

Implementing Legislation by Canadian Provinces of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement

Ontario - Enacted on June 4, 2007 Bill 198

Quebec Approval - November 30, 2006 Bill 92 English Project de loi 92 Fran�ais

Arrangements between subnational units within the United States




• Truckee River Agreement of 1935


• Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Settlement Act of 1990


• Pullman-Moscow Aquifer Inter-Agency Agreement between the States of Washington and Idaho


• Memorandum of Agreement for Maintenance and Utilization of the Numerical Model of the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer between Idaho Department of Water Resources and Washington Department of Ecology (8 October 2007)


• Arrangements between the US States of Georgia and South Carolina
• Letter Agreement between the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Department of Natural Resources, and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control


• Executive Order on the creation of the Governor's Savannah River Committee of Georgia, signed June 21, 2005


• Executive Order on the creation of the Governor's Savannah River Committee of South Carolina, no. 2005-14, signed June 21, 2005


• Memorandum of Agreement between the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, signed October 15, 2007
• U.S. Water Compacts and Related Settlements
• Arkansas River Compact of 1948 (as adopted by Kansas legislature)
• North Platt River Settlement Decree


• Republican River Compact (as adopted by Colorado Legislature)


• Republican River Compact Settlement Agreement


• Susquehanna River Basin Compact


• Upper Niobrara River Compact




Other relevant arrangements




• United States-Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Act, Public Law 109-448, 120 Stat. 3328-3332 (issued December 22, 2006)