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Environmental Defense Fund Honored with Department of Interior Partners in Conservation Award

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Environmental Defense Fund Honored with Department of Interior Partners in Conservation Award

 

For Immediate Release
 
Contact:
Jennifer Pitt, (720) 841-5366, jpitt@edf.org
Katharine Burnham, (202) 415-5742, kburnham@edf.org
 
(Washington, DC—May 7, 2009) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today awarded the Partners in Conservation Award to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and other organizations for their contributions to improving water management of the Colorado River system.  The new management policies have been hailed as the most significant change since the Colorado River Compact was signed in 1922. EDF worked with other conservation organizations to develop the “Conservation Before Shortage” proposals and other ideas, which were evaluated by the Bureau of Reclamation in developing new rules for managing the Colorado River under serious drought conditio