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Show 17 in said Upper Basin they amount to only 2,500,000 acre-feet annually. Thus said compact attempts to apportion to said Lower Basin only 1,000,000 acre-feet of unappropriated water, whereas it attempts to apportion to said Upper Basin 5,000,000 acre-feet of unappropriated water annually. Under said compact, said 5,000,000 acre-feet of unappropriated water could not, nor could any part of it, be appropriated in said Lower Basin. Thus said compact attempts to deprive the State of Arizona, its citizens, inhabitants and property owners, of their right to appropriate said 5,000,000 acre-feet of unappropriated water, all of which is now subject to appropriation in Arizona. (2) Said compact does not apportion or attempt to apportion all of the water of said Colorado River System, but attempts to apportion only 15,000,000 acre-feet thereof, and leaves unapportioned the remaining water of said system, aggregating 3,000,000 acre-feet annually. Said unapportioned water is a part of the unappropriated water of said Colorado River System. Said compact attempts to withdraw said unapportioned water from appropriation and to prohibit the appropriation thereof. This said compact attempts to do by providing that Mexican rights shall be supplied from said unapportioned water, and that said unapportioned water shall be subject to apportionment after October 1, 1963. Thus said compact attempts to deprive the State of Arizona, its citizens, inhabitants and property owners, of their right to appropriate said 3,000,000 acre-feet of unappropriated water, all of which is now subject to appropriation in Arizona. (3) Said compact defines the term "Colorado River System" so as to include therein the Gila River and its tributaries, of which the total flow, aggregating 3,000,000 acre-feet of water annually, was appropriated |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |