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Dec 1971
The Metropolis Runs Dry
Publication: Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division
Volume 97, Issue 4
Abstract
From 1961 to 1967, the northeastern United States suffered the worst drought in its recorded history. Caught in the fourth year of the unprecedented dry spell, some localities in the Delaware River Valley took extraordinary measures to protect their threatened sources of water supply. The spector of the New York metropolitan region about to run dry loomed as an administrative nightmare for the newly created Delaware River Basin Commission. Under the unrelenting pressure of the crisis, the parties-at-interest buried some of their past differences and improvised. Instead of resorting to court litigation and a judicial settlement, as had been customary in previous conflicts, they broke new ground and resolved the dispute by a combination of administrative negotiation and political pressure. The crisis made new forms of intergovernment cooperation mandatory and, at least, temporarily legitimate.
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Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division
Volume 97 • Issue 4 • December 1971
Pages: 559 - 570
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© 1971 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Dec 1971
Published online: Feb 11, 2021
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Richard A. Hogarty
Asst. Prof. of Political Science, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.
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