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Show 32 by California residents. An additional 400,000 acre feet is to be used for desilting the waters diverted into All-American Canal at Imperial Dam. The waters so to be used for power and desilting will be wasted back to the river at points at and below which it cannot be recaptured for further use in the United States. Of the water to be diverted at Imperial Dam into the All-American Canal by Imperial Irrigation District approximately 2,200,000 acre feet per year is to be used for power by said district at Pilot Knob, California, and wasted back into the river below the Mexican border so as to be available for the irrigation of the Mexican lands, hereinabove mentioned, by means of the existing Alamo or Imperial Canal, which has its headgate at a point on the Mexican border on the west side of the river and is now used for delivery of water for irrigation in the Imperial Valley and in Mexico. Said canal, upon completion of Ail-American Canal, will be abandoned by Imperial Irrigation District and its full capacity of about 3,000,000 acre feet per year will become available to deliver water from the Colorado River for the irrigation of said Mexican lands. XXVI Local Laws Governing Use of Water The common-law rule respecting riparian rights in flowing waters has never obtained in the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming and the waters of flowing streams in said states have always |
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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] : |