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Show 298 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Arizona asks the Court (1) to quiet her title to 3,800,000 acre- feet of water per annum, including all the 1,000,000 acre-feet referred to in Article in (b) of the Compact, which she says is in the Gila and not the main stream, and 2,800,000 acre-feet of the in (a) water, substantially all to be taken from the main stream; (2) to limit California to 4,400,000 acre-feet of m (a) water, less reservoir losses which would reduce California's uses to a net of about 3,800,000 acre-feet; (3) -and this is new - to enjoin any claim of right by California to the use of excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Compact (Cali- fornia claims the right to about 1,000,000 acre-feet of water of this class); (4) to define the term "beneficial consumptive use," as used in the Compact, as meaning "depletion of the virgin flow of the main stream occasioned by the activities of man," with no charge for the use of waters salvaged by man's activities. Translated, this means that Arizona seeks to use about 5,000,000 acre-feet, measured in terms of actual quan- tities consumed, but to reduce the charge to 3,800,000 acre-feet, measured in terms of main stream depletion, because, says Arizona, the difference was lost, in a state of nature, by evapo- ration. But she would charge California with the whole quan- tity we consume, although, measured in terms of stream depletion, our consumptive use of 5,362,000 acre-feet would shrink to about 4,500,000 acre-feet. Arizona would not be charged with the use of water salvaged on the Gila River system by Roosevelt Dam and other dams, but California would be charged with the use of water salvaged on the main stream by Hoover Dam. Arizona concedes to Nevada 300,000 acre-feet, and offers to assume the burden of the claims of Utah and New Mexico, whatever they may be, in order to keep those two Upper Basin states out of the suit. Nevada and United States Intervene Nevada intervened in the suit, claiming a minimum of 539,000 acre-feet and a maximum of 900,000. The United States intervened, claiming rights "as against the parties to this cause," for water to supply all the govern- |