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Show 348 terior, to satisfy annual consumptive use of 7,500,-000 acre-feet in the aforesaid three states, then the available annual consumptive use shall be apportioned as follows: 2.8 (a) For use in Arizona y~r 4.4 (b) For use in California y^ .3 (c) For use in Nevada (4) Any mainstream water consumptively used within a state shall be charged to its apportionment, regardless of the purpose for which it was released; (5) If the water apportioned for consumptive use in any of said states in any year is insufficient to satisfy present perfected rights in that state, the deficiency shall first be supplied out of water apportioned for use in the other two states but not consumed in those states, and any remaining deficiency shall be supplied by each of the remaining states, out of water apportioned for consumptive use in such states which is in excess of the quantity necessary to satisfy present perfected rights in such states, in proportion to the ratios heretofore established between them, to wit: if water must be supplied to satisfy present perfected rights in two of the three states, then the third state shall, out of such excess, supply all the necessary water, and if water must be supplied to satisfy present perfected rights in one state, then each of the other two states shall out of such excess supply that proportion of the necessary water that its apportionment of the first |
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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 |