HCM 2003 Summary

• Urges the U.S. Secretary of Interior to immediately take all necessary measures to provide for Colorado River augmentation and conservation.

• Notes the Colorado River system is in its twenty-first consecutive year of drought and a shortage is increasingly likely.

• Cites the federal government's failure to operate the Yuma Desalting Plant as causing the loss of over 1,800,000 acre-feet from Lake Mead.

• References the lower basin drought contingency plan commitment to conserve or create 100,000 acre-feet or more per year of Colorado River water.

• Directs Arizona's Secretary of State to transmit copies to the U.S. Secretary of Interior, President, and Congress members from Arizona.