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Show __g__ the apportionment from the entire system, but the " system" as a whole is none the less, under Article III of the Compact, the declared source for purposes of the apportionment. By Article III (d) of the Compact the Upper States bind themselves to turn down to the Lower Basin (which would include Arizona, California and Nevada) an average of 75,000,000 acre feet over a period of ten years, the exact language being as follows: "The States of the Upper Division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre feet for any period of ten consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact." This provision of the Compact is to be considered along with the other provisions in determining whether Arizona's proposed contract violates the sections of the Project Act hereinafter cited. Although Arizona only signed the Compact and did not ratify it, her land area is made part of the two Basins, nearly all in the Lower, by the other six states for the purposes of their Compact, and likewise by the United States, the owner of the greater part of the Arizona land area, for the purposes of the Project Act. The effect of the Compact is that each of the two Basins shall enjoy only the quantum of water, inclusive of that represented by already existing water rights therein, assigned it by the Compact no matter what the date of the uses in the other Basin; and the purport of the Project Act is, among other things, that the dam shall be operated by, all contracts for the use of water therefrom shall be governed by, all water interests of the United |
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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] : |