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Show 12 "XIX "Water Contracts Between Secretary of Interior and California Corporations ***** "Plaintiff alleges that the total of the waters for the storage and delivery of which it was so contracted is substantially the entire amount which may legally be diverted from said river and consumptively used in the State of California under the terms of said statutory contract between the State of California and the United States, and is far in excess of California's equitable share of said waters." At page 30 of Bill. "XXV "Proposed Uses by California Corporations Notwithstanding the fact that California, by said Act of her legislature, agreed irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States, for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, to limit her aggregate annual consumptive use of the waters of the Colorado River to an amount not exceeding 5,485,500 acre feet, California and her corporations hereinafter named propose to divert from said river and consumptively use in California an aggregate of 14,330,000 acre feet per year, in which they are being aided and abetted by the United States by its construction and financing of |
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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] : |