AZ vs. CA:25 California Exhibits, Vol. XXV; Nos. 7501-7859

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16 limit the development of its basin, the use of its water for purposes of navigation shall be subservient to the use of such water for domestic, agricultural and power purposes; and that said compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the legislatures of all the signatory States (Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming) and by the Congress of the United States. XIV Said Colorado River Compact is grossly inequitable, unjust and unfair to the State of Arizona, for the reasons and in the respects following, to-wit: (1) Said compact attempts to apportion to said Upper Basin more, and to said Lower Basin less, than an equitable share of the water of said Colorado River System. Said compact attempts to apportion to each of said basins the same quantity of water, to-wit, 7,500,000 acre-feet annually, but said Lower Basin needs and can put to beneficial use more than twice the quantity of water which is needed or can be put to beneficial use in said Upper Basin. That part of said Lower Basin which is in Arizona needs and can put to beneficial use more than the total quantity of water which said compact attempts to apportion to said entire Lower Basin. Said Lower Basin includes practically all of Arizona. None of the water of said Colorado River System can be put to beneficial use in that part of Arizona which is in said Upper Basin. The 7,500,000 acre-feet of water which said compact attempts to apportion to each of said basins includes all water necessary to supply existing rights, which means all water heretofore appropriated and now being used. In said Lower Basin such appropriations amount to 6.500,000 acre-feet of water annually, whereas