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Show FOREWORD Iisr this volume are collected all of the interstate compacts in force September 30, 1968 among States of the American Union which apportion or govern the consumptive use of the waters of interstate streams, which have to do with the prevention or amelioration of pollution of such waters, or which deal with the control of floods and problems associated therewith. In addition, there are collected in it the treaties between the United States and Canada or Mexico and the de- cisions of the United States Supreme Court in interstate litigation which cover these three subjects. Limitations of space did not permit the inclusion of compacts, treaties, or adjudications dealing solely or principally with navigation (for example, Pennsylvania v. Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co., 13 How. 518 (1852), 18 How. 421 (1856), involving the Virginia-Kentucky compact respecting navigation on the Ohio River), with the use of interstate or international waters for recreational purposes (for example, the Pymatuning Lake compact between Pennsylvania and Ohio, 50 Stat. 865 (1937), 59 Stat. 502 (1945)), with fisheries (for example, the Columbia River fisheries compact between Washington and Oregon, 40 Stat. 515 (1918); Olin v. Kitzmiller, 259 U.S. 260 (1922)), or with boundary matters (for example, the Michigan-Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary compact, 62 Stat. 1152 (1948)). The first edition of this volume was published by the Department of the Interior in 1956. Since that time 'nine new compacts have come into force, there have been amendments to two of the older compacts, the Columbia Basin development treaty with Canada has been ratified, and there has been an important adjudication bv the Supreme Court on various problems in the Lower Basin of the Colorado River. All of this material is included in this second edition of Documents on the Use and Control of the Waters of Interstate and International Streams. Certain of the material in the first edition has become obsolete and is therefore omitted from the current volume. Although the materials are arranged with a particular view to ease of use in connection with day-to-day problems as they arise, it is hoped that they and the historical and other notes appended to the documents will also serve as a starting point for scholars who are interested in studying the use of the interstate compact and the interstate adjudica- tion as phenomena in the government of our country and in the devel- opment of its resources and, along with the treaties, as examples of peaceable methods by which troublesome international problems else- where in the world may be solved. Both the interstate compact and interstate litigation over water matters are twentieth century phenomena. The earliest compact found in this volume dates back only to 1922,, the earliest Supreme Court |