International cooperation between the United States and Mexico : addressing water quality of the Lower Rio Grande /

(downstream from Laredo, Texas/Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas to

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crouch, Kellie Gene
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:(downstream from Laredo, Texas/Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas to
addressing boundary issues. The Commission's
addressing water quality improvement and water-related health
and international cooperation to address fecal coliform,
and the influence of the established institutional structure
between Mexico and Texas through a treaty in 1944. The
between the two nations. This thesis concentrates on federal
concern the potential impacts of recent binational
cooperation between Mexico and the United States in
ecological integrity demonstrated in the Rio Grande Basin,
environmental quality of the region. Such circumstances have
influenced cooperative efforts at all levels of government
issues of the Lower Rio Grande, the types of contaminants
on improving water quality of the Lower Rio Grande.
receiving attention from cooperation, the lessons regarding
responsibilities include water quality issues. Since this
salinity, and pesticide contamination of the Lower Rio Grande
sections representing both Mexico and the United States for
the Gulf of Mexico) and the impacts on human health from
the international border have contributed to a decline in
the links between economic development, human health, and
time, increased industrialization and population growth along
treaty defines the mandate of the International Boundary and
Water Commission, an international institution composed of
Water quantities of the Lower Rio Grande were apportioned
waterbome diseases. The central questions of this thesis
Item Description:"Major subject: Geography".
Vita.
Physical Description:vi, 101 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.