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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No.1.3.4.0. Identification: .AUH.5....1957 Admitted: AJLIG...6.-.1957 Extract From Motion of Arizona for Leave to File Bill of Complaint and Bill of Complaint, Arizona v. California, et al., 283 U. S. 423 (1931). (pp. 7-8, 16-18, 22-23, 34-36) VII The total average flow of the Colorado River and to tributaries in the United States is 18,000,000 acre-feet of water annually. Of said total flow, 9,000,000 acre-feet were appropriated and put to beneficial use in the United States prior to June 25, 1929, and said appropriated water has ever since been and is now being used and consumed. Of said appropriated water, 2,500,000 acre-feet are diverted annually from the Colorado River above Lee Ferry and from tributaries entering said river above Lee Ferry, and are used and consumed in Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, and 6,500,000 acre-feet are diverted annually from said river below Lee Ferry and from tributaries entering said river below Lee Ferry, and are used and consumed in Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico. Of the appropriated water so diverted below Lee Ferry, 3,500,000 acre-feet are annually diverted, used and consumed in Arizona. . . . All of said unappropriated water flows in Arizona and on the boundary thereof; all of it is needed and can be put |
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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. |
