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-2- to beneficial use in Arizona; and all of it is subject to appropriation under the laws of Arizona. Of said unappropriated water, 8,000,000 acre-feet are flowing in the main stream of the Colorado River and 1,000,000 acre-feet in tributaries entering said river between Lee Ferry and Laguna Dam. All of the water of the Gila River and its tributaries was appropriated and put to beneficial use in Arizona and New Mexico prior to June 25, 1929. There was not on said date, nor has there since been, nor is there now, any unappropriated water in the Gila River or any of its tributaries. To "appropriate" water means to take and divert a specified quantity thereof and put it to beneficial use in accordance with the laws of the State where such water is found, and, by so doing, to acquire, under said laws, a vested right to take and divert from the same source, and to use and consume, the same quantity of water annually forever, subject only to the rights of prior appropriators. Such is the sense in which the word "appropriate" and its derivatives are used in this bill of complaint. XIV Said Colorado River Compact is grossly inequitable, unjust and unfair to the State of Arizona, for the reasons and in the respect following, to-wit: (1) Said compact attempts to apportion to said Upper Basin, more, and to said Lower Basin less, than an equitable share of the water of said Colorado River System. Said compact attempts to apportion to each of said basins the same quantity of water, to wit 7,500,000 acre-feet annually, but said Lower Basin needs and can put to beneficial use more than twice the quantity of water which is needed or can be put to beneficial use in