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Show 320 concern primarily to local interests, public and private.24 Con- gress has made possible some assistance to such purposes while legislating for federal and nonfederal development of water resources. We shall focus attention here on these provisions. Preliminarily, it may be observed that conflicting interests in a common water source are at times a matter of vital concern to two or more states simultaneously. For example, demands for water supply for the New York metropolitan area produced a serious dispute between New Jersey and New York.25 And it may be noted that water supply is one of the concerns of reciprocal legislation enacted by states in the Delaware River Basin, and of Incodel, an interstate commission.26 Likewise, the need for large quantities of water for municipal purposes has been a factor contributing to collisions of interests among states both in the East and in the West.27 Detailed reference 24 For an inventory of public and private water facilities of the United States in communities having a population of 100 or more, see Inventory op Water and Sewage Facilities in the United States, 1945, Public Health Service (1948). 25 New Jersey v. New York, 283 U. S. 336 (1931). 28 See infra, p. 470. 27 For examples of such controversies in the East, see Connecticut v. Massachusetts, 282 U. S. 660 (1931) ; New Jersey v. New York, 283 U. S. 336 (1931). In arid and semiarid areas of the West, such problems may become more acute. Thus, the need for large quantities of water for municipal pur- poses was one of the factors which contributed to the extended controversy over apportionment of waters of the Colorado River. Congress in 1921 authorized Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming to negotiate a Colorado River Compact respecting apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River. Act of August 19, 1921, 42 Stat. 171. Hooveb Dam Documents, H. Doc. No. 717, 80th Cong., 2d sess., p. A17 (1948). But this Compact was not ratified by Arizona until 1944. In 1928, the Boulder Canyon Project Act was enacted, approving the Colorado River Compact when it shall have been approved by the legisla- tures of California and five of the other six Colorado River Basin States. Act of December 21, 1928, § 13, 45 Stat. 1057, 1064, 43 U. S. C. 617Z. The effectiveness of that Act was made dependent upon such approval by the States, together with passage by California of an act whereby it would agree irrevocably and unconditionally to limit its aggregate annual con- sumptive use of Colorado River water to 4,400,000 acre-feet of Compact water, plus not more than one-half of any surplus water unapportioned by the Compact. §§4(a), 13, 45 Stat. 1058, 1064, 43 U. S. C. 617c(a), 617Z. California enacted such a statute in 1929. Act of March 4, 1929, ch. 16, 48th sess., Statutes and Amendments to the Code, pp. 38-39 (1929). |