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Show Statement in Support of Motion The purpose of this suit is: (1) To obtain an equitable apportionment of the waters flowing in the Colorado River and its tributaries among the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming and to quiet Arizona's title to her equitable portion of said waters against the adverse claims of the defendants; and (2) To obtain a judicial determination of the quantum of said waters which California may legally use within the limitation upon her use fixed by an Act of her legislature, approved March 4, 1929, enacted pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 (a) of the Boulder Canyon Project Act. This Court, in United States vs. Arizona, 55 S. Ct. 666, decided April 29, 1935, held that Arizona's jurisdiction in respect of the appropriation, use and distribution of an equitable share of the waters flowing in said river is unaffected by the Colorado River Compact or Federal reclamation laws. The State of California, nevertheless, asserts under the law of appropriation a prior right as against Arizona to divert and use some 14,000,000 acre feet of the waters of said stream annually, which is substantially the entire average annual flow of said stream at Boulder Dam after allowing for about 2,500,000 acre feet of existing annual upstream depletions. |
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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] : |