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Show -110- The power of the States, with the consent of Congress, to make compacts fixing their 'sovereign rights and relations in the control and use of American waters is almost unlimited. However, no State or group of States can force any other State to join in, or assent to, any compactj or to relinquish any sovereign right by failing to do so. In the absence of agreement, a State may vindicate its sovereign rights only in the Supreme Court of the United States, where judical relief is decidedly limited* Constitutional amendments extending the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to arbitral decision and declaratory relief in controversies between States, and subordinating navigation with proper safeguards to the naturally higher uses of water for domestic purposes, sanitation and production of the neces- saries of life, would be in keeping with the needs of the times and the trend of conventional practice among the most forward-looking nations of the world. APPENDIX Colorado River Compact ****** ARTICLE I The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable di- vision and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controver- sies; a.nd to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of life and property from floods. To these ends the Colorado River Basin is divided into two Basins, and an apportionment of the use of part of the water of the Colorado River System is made to each of them with the provision that further* equitable apportionments may be made. ARTICLE II As used in this compact: ' (a.) The term "Colorado River System** means that portion of the Colorado River a.nd its tributaries within the United States of America, (b>) The term "Colorado River Basinn means all of the drainage area of the Colorado River System and all other territory within the United States of America, to which the waters of the Colorado River System shall be beneficially applied, ' (©) The term "States of the Upper Division" means the States of Colo- rado, Wew Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming* (&) The term "States of the Lower Division" means the States of .Arizona, California, and Nevada. • .-.,-.¦ (e ) The term "Lee Ferry" means a point in the main stream of the Colorado River ome mile below the mouth of the Paria River. (f) The term "Upper Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain ianto the Colorado River System above Lee Ferry, and also all parts of |