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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1218 Identification: July 12, 1957 Admitted: Extracts From An Equitable Basis for Solution of the Colorado River Controversy An address before the Arizona State Bar Association, December 15, 1928 By Dr. G. E. P. Smith Professor of Irrigation Engineering, University of Arizona (pp. 2, 8, 9) * * * Sixty per cent of the total volume of water is gathered above the junction of the Green with the main river; forty per cent of the supply originates south of that point. Arizona contributes about four million acre-feet. The Gila River, reconstructed, accounts for two million, seven hundred thousand acre-feet. * * * The division of water, therefore, was most unfortunate for Arizona. Only eight million, five hundred thousand acre-feet were allotted to the lower basin. The three hundred thousand acre-feet desired by Nevada, plus the total use in the Little Colorado and Gila basins, aggregates about three million, two hundred thousand acre-feet, leaving five million, three hundred thousand acre-feet of the allotment to the lower basin to be derived from the main |
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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. |