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Show 29. Present water uses in the United States are estimated to deplete the virgin water supply at the boundary by about 7,120,000 acre-feet annually, leaving an average of about 9,100,000 acre-feet to meet expanding uses under existing or authorized projects and to supply new demands for potential projects within the Colorado River Basin States. Division of Water 30. The Colorado River Compact, signed at Santa Fe, N. Mex., November 24, 1922, and made effective by subsequent ratification by the seven basin States, and by enactment of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057), apportions the waters of the Colorado River system between the upper basin and the lower basin and provides that the States of the upper division (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) 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 10 consecutive years. The compact also provides for a division of surplus waters after October 1, 1963. There is no final agreement among the States of the Colorado River Basin as to the amount of Colorado River water to be allocated to individual States nor have all of the States made final allocations of water among projects within their boundaries. There is not complete agree- |
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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] : |
