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Show that ultimately will comprise the comprehensive plan for the utilization of the waters of the Colorado River system for irrigation, electrical power, and other purposes. Authority for the Report 3. This report is authorized to be made by virtue of the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388) and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, particularly the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057) and the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774). Water Supply 28. In its virgin condition, before diversions were made by man, the Colorado River is estimated to have carried an average of 17,720,000 acre-feet of water annually across the International Boundary into Mexico. The annual flow varied from about 5,000,000 acre-feet to 25,-000,000 acre-feet. Under the Mexican Treaty it is estimated that Mexico will receive 1,500,000 acre-feet annually, leaving for consumption in the United States an average of 16,220,000 acre-feet plus such water as was consumed under virgin conditions by natural losses, preventable in part with full basin development. |
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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] : |