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Show 37 one state, riparian or tributary to an interstate stream, is using or has appropriated or attempted to appropriate more than its fair share of said waters against the claims of other states similarly situated. Upon the completion of Boulder, Parker and Imperial Dams, Los Angeles Aqueduct and Ail-American Canal, the United States, at public expense, will have provided California with works and facilities of sufficient capacity to enable her to divert and consumptively use the entire flow of the Colorado River and its tributaries, except the Gila, less existing diversions and appropriations in other states above Imperial Dam. The river then will be fully developed and thereafter there will be no point in the United States' undertaking, nor will it undertake, the reclamation of other lands in the Colorado River Basin. By reason of the facts stated herein, all future reclamation of lands in the Colorado River Basin by irrigation from said river must necessarily be accomplished by means of private capital. Because of the expense of constructing, maintaining and operating the dams, reservoirs, canals and other works required for the irrigation of arid land in Arizona by waters of the Colorado River, it will not be feasible to irrigate said land in small separate tracts but it will be necessary to combine such tracts into large projects, each project being operated and administered as a single unit. The organization of such projects and the construction, maintenance |
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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] : |