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Show which said compact attempts to apportion to said Lower Basin. The delivery of said 1,050,000 acre-feet of water to said District, as in said pretended contract provided, would exhaust said apportionment, and, by the terms of said compact and of said Boulder Canyon Project Act, no water would then be available for or subject to appropriation in said Lower Basin, although there would still remain in said Colorado River System 7,950,000 acre-feet of unappropriated water per year. Thus the effect of carrying out the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act and of said pretended contract would be to deprive the State of Arizona, its citizens, inhabitants and property owners, of their right to appropriate any of the unappropriated water of said Colorado River System, aggregating, as aforesaid, 9,000,000 acre-feet annually, all of which is now subject to appropriation in Arizona. |
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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. |