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Show 313 chargeable tn_the-5ta,te_vv;ithin whichthe water is consumed, and this consumption is included within each state's apportionment. Conversely, each state's apportionment is an overriding limitation on all consumptive use within the state, including uses claimed by the United States for federal establishments. Consumptive use is measured atjthe several points of diversion in each state by a determination of the amount of, water diverted from the mainstream less return flow thereto available for consumptive: use: in the United States 9J^iE.iStis^?ii2J[L^LJ^S-J^2£icl!L*rSa.^ obligation. The Secretary must keep an account of diversions for each state. He must compute, as accurately as possible, the amount of usable return flow from water diverted and credit this amount to ^eajch _state. Reservoir evaporation, chajineljmd^therjgsses,..sustained, jan^ water from the mainstream are not chargeable to the states but are to be treated as diminution of supply. Only after water is diverted from the mainstream are losses on it chargeable to a state as consumption. The interstate allocation outlined above is based on the conclusion that the Secretary has used his water delivery contracts in conjunction with the Section 4(a) limitation on California to effectuate an apportionment among Arizona, California and Nevada of all of the water he determines to release in any year from Lake Mead and from downstream reservoirs for consumption in the United States. Of the first 7.5 million acre-feet of annual consumptive use of water from Lake Mead and the mainstream 2.8 below, the Secretary has forever allocated yy to Arizona. Of the excess consumption, he has allocated to Arizona 50%, subject to reduction to 46% if he contracts to allocate 4% to Nevada. Similarly, out of the first 7.5 million acre- |
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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 |