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Show -lion United States soil or for the use and benefit of American Cities and towns, and if any rights to waters of the Colorado River shall hereafter be accorded to the Republic of Mexico, by treaty or otherwise, such rights should relate only to the unregulated normal flow of the main stream, and in amount not in excess of that which has been applied to beneficial use in that counrty. 4. That the right of the Colorado River States, as of all of the so-called "appropriation" states of the arid West, as enunciated in their water laws and recognized in the Federal Reclamation Act and the Federal Water Power Act, to control the appropriation, use and distribution of the waters within their respective borders, should not be impaired nor modified except with the consent and approval of such States. 5. That in whatever agreement may be reached respecting a division of the waters of the Colorado River, or of that portion of such waters available to the States of the Lower Basin, Arizona should be assured such amount as may be necessary to reclaim her arid lands which may be ascertained and determined, by competent investigation, to be susceptible of practical reclamation from the Colorado River. 6. That the States of the Lower Basin should have the right, respectively, to consume for beneficial purposes, such of the water in the tributary streams flowing in their several States as can be put to use prior to the water entering the main channel of the Colorado River. 7. That Arizona is entitled to the reasonable benefits that may be derived from such physical advantages as nature has bestowed upon her. The fall of the Colorado River within Arizona's boundaries, susceptible of utilization for the creation of vast stores of hydro-electric power, is a natural resource as truly as stores of oil or deposits of coal, to be employed for a similar purpose, would be, and |
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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. |