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The Pecos River Case

Sharing a Resource Among Old Rivals

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Braving the Currents

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  1. Douglas L. Grant, “Interstate Water Allocation Compacts: When the Virtue of Permanence Becomes the Vice of Inflexibility,” 74 University of Colorado Law Review 105, (Winter 2003); Emlen G. Hall, High and Dry: the Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2002).

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Pfeifer Hanada, A., Hancock, L. (2004). The Pecos River Case. In: Braving the Currents. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8129-4_6

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