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Show -39- Division of Water-Authorization of Tri-State Agreement Section 4 provides that the Act shall not become effective until (1) the Colorado River Compact shall have been ratified by the seven States of the Colorado River Basin, or (2) if the Compact be not so ratified within six months, then not until six States, including California, shall have so ratified and consented to waive the seven-State provision contained in the Compact, and the California Legislature, by act, shall have entered into an irrevocable covenant with the United States that the "aggregate annual consumptive use of water of and from the Colorado River * * * in the State of California, * * * shall not exceed four million two hundred thousand acre-feet of the waters apportioned to the lower basin States by * * * the Colorado River Compact, plus not more than one-half of any * * * waters unapportioned by said Compact, This limitation upon California's use of water is an amendment to the original measure. An additional amendment authorizes the States of Arizona, California and Nevada to enter into a tri-State agreement, and the terms of this agreement, "to take effect upon the ratification of the Colorado River Compact by Arizona, California and Nevada," are set forth in detail. In this tri-State agreement 300,000 acre-feet of the water allocated by the Compact to the lower basin would be apportioned to Nevada and 2,800,000 acre-feet to Arizona, and Arizona would be permitted to use one-half of the unallocated water; Arizona would have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use |
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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] : California exhibits. |