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

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- lithe States of either Basin divide the water among themselves, they must do so by interstate agreement subordinate to the main Colorado River Compact, or, failing in that, then through judicial decision with the application of whatever principles the Supreme Court of the United States may lay down as governing, in their case, a division of water among them. In the meantime the Lower Basin with its three principal States, Arizona, California and Nevada is the more favored for it has a present apportionment of 8,500,000 acre feet to be subdivided as against the Upper Basin of four principal States with a present apportionment for subdivision of only 7,500,000 acre feet, despite the fact that the Upper States contribute approximately eighty per cent of the total flow of the river system. ENUMERATION OF PROVISIONS PROTECTIVE OF UPPER BASIN STATES. The protective provisions of the Project Act above referred to and which are violated by Arizona's proposed contract are as follows: Section 1 of the Act, which conditions the exercise of the authority of the Secretary of the Interior everywhere under the Act, no matter what the particular project or contract may be, as being "subject to the terms of the Colorado River Compact hereinafter mentioned"; Section 8 (a), which deals chiefly with the operation and control of the Boulder Canyon Project both as to the United States and those claiming under it, and which is as follows: "The United States, its permittees, licensees, and contractcos, and all users and appropriators of water stored, diverted, carried, and or distributed by the reservoir, canals, and other works herein authorized, shall observe and be subject to and