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Show -3- 1,000,000 acre-feet, water which it may have used but to which it has no exclusive right in perpetuity-that is, water not apportioned to it. The water apportioned is that to which exclusive beneficial use in perpetuity is given in paragraph (a), less any deductions which may have to be recognized as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c). As to water not yet appropriated, the Compact (which the Act provides and attempts to enforce) provides, in effect, that each Basin may increase its present consumptive use of water in perpetuity until each has reached a total of 7,500,000 acre-feet. (Bill, 52.) This means that the Upper Basin may add 5,000,000 acre-feet and the Lower Basin 1,000,000 acre-feet annually to present consumptive uses in perpetuity. (Bill, 7.) The Compact also provides that the Lower Basin may further increase its consumptive use of water (but not in perpetuity) by an additional 1,000,000 acre-feet annually. (Bill, 53.) Deducting these amounts from the total annual flow of 18,000,000 acre-feet (Bill 7), there remains 2,000,000 acre-feet of unapportioned water from which any rights accorded Mexico are to be satisfied. (Bill, 53). By the terms of the Compact, any part of this 2,000,000 acre-feet not required by Mexico shall (together with the 1,000,000 acre-feet temporarily awarded to the Lower Basin) be subject to apportionment between the two Basins in 1963, or at any time thereafter. |
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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] : California exhibits. |