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Show 18 generating and selling such power would be subject to taxation and would yield substantial revenues to the State of Arizona, and the use of such power would add greatly to the welfare and prosperity of said State and her inhabitants. For the reasons aforesaid, the water of the Colorado River and the dam sites and reservoir sites above referred to constitute the greatest natural resource of the State of Arizona. XIV Unreclaimed Irrigation Projects in Arizona Irrigation projects already formed and now in existence comprise more than 1,000,000 acres of the unirrigated but irrigable land referred to in Paragraph XII hereof. More than 100,000 acres of the land in said irrigation projects are owned and held by the State of Arizona. None of the land in said projects is now irrigated, but all of it is susceptible of irrigation. The irrigation of said land is practicable and feasible at the present time, and definite plans have been made for the irrigation thereof. Such irrigation will require 4,000,000 acre feet annually, plus canal losses, of the unappropriated water now flowing in the main stream of the Colorado River. XV Colorado River Compact Legislation was enacted in the year 1921 by the legislatures of the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming and by the Congress |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde 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, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |
