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Show California Water Demands At that conference, California's minimum demands had been specifically stated in her behalf by her Governor, Honorable C. C. Young, to be 4,600,000 acre feet of the apportioned water. It quickly developed in our conferences that California had greatly increased her water demand above that so stated by Governor Young and insisted that she must have a minimum of 5,800,000 acre feet of apportioned water. Based on a demand of California for 4,600,000 acre feet of the water apportioned to the Lower Basin states by the Santa Fe Compact, Arizona would receive 3,600,000 acre feet of apportioned water. The increased amount that California demanded at our conferences, if accepted, would have reduced Arizona's apportionment to a point which would not permit any considerable new irrigation development in Arizona from the Colorado River. This departure of California from her position as stated by Governor Young in 1927, and her insistence upon this increased and impossible allowance of water, was the particular obstacle that made it wholly impossible for this Commission to reach a settlement by agreement. In our numerous conferences it became apparent that California's increased water demand had been brought about by the ambitious desires of the Imperial and Coa-chella Valleys which, in the intervening time, had come to the conclusions that they required much more water than appeared necessary in 1927 for their large development program in these two Valleys. If California succeeds in taking the water which they now plan to divert through the proposed All-American canal, the great Parker-Gila project in Arizona will be put on the shelf for all time, a project involving an irrigated 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] : California exhibits. |