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Show • 191 that was the most discussed at that conference, was an adjustment of the differences between the States of Arizona and California with respect to an apportionment of the waters of the lower Colorado River Basin, in order that, if those two States might be brought into accord, the Colorado River compact, which affected the entire seven States, might be ratified and approved by all of the States. "Each of the States in the lower basin was called upon to submit to the Denver conference a statement of the quantity of water they desired to obtain out of the Colorado River. At the time the conference was held it was thought that there were but seven and a half million acre-feet of water to divide, and upon that basis the senior Senator from Nevada stated to the Senate that the governors of the upper-basin States recommended that there be awarded to the State of California 4,200,000 acre-feet, to the State of Arizona 3,000,000 acre-feet, and to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre-feet. "The Senator explained in his remarks how the four governors arrived at that apportionment, and said that it was done under article 3 of the Colorado River compact, paragraph (a) of which reads as follows: * * * * "The Senator then stated that subsequently it was discovered that there was an additional million acre-feet of water apportioned to the lower basin which could be divided. The idea of dividing that additional apportionment of water did not occur to the governors and the representatives of the lower basin States at the time of the Denver conference. "The Senator then read to the Senate this provision of the compact, which is paragraph (b) of article 3: 'In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a), the lower basin is hereby given the |
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Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial 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 |