Delaware River Basin Commission was created in 1961.

The Colorado River Compact has several purposes: 1) to apportion the use of water in the Colorado River Basin (i.e. the Colorado River and all its tributaries); 2) promote interstate comity; and 3) to secure the ability of the Upper Colorado River Basin to develop at its own pace (without the compact, the more populous Lower Basin would have tried to develop a claim as much water as possible--the compact preserves the ability of the Upper Basin to use water).

Harry William Bashore has written:

'Upper Colorado River Basin compact'

The Delaware River.

The Delaware River was named after Delaware because the Cherokee indeans named Delaware and the Delaware River.