Folder contains statements, congressional records, legislative bills, correspondence, and reports from 1972 concerning the salinity problem of the Colorado River in the Western United States. The material details information about the Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program and the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1972. Also included is an environmental statement from September 1972 by Ival V. Goslin about the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project in Utah.

Folder contains correspondence, legislative bills, and congressional records from 1973 concerning the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1973 which would control the salt concentration of the Colorado River in the Western United States.

Folder contains congressional records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, maps, and reports from 1962 to 1965 that pertain to the salinity of the Colorado River in the Western United States and its negative affects on irrigation and agriculture in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. Information includes recommendations to reduce the salinity problem and keep enough water for the Colorado River Basin States while maintaining a good relationship with Mexico.