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<br />" <br /> <br />expressly to furnish one-half of the Lower Basin's <br />Mexican Treaty obligation. Additionally, because federal <br />authorities seek to maximize power generating potential <br />in the Lower Basin, they typically release more than 8.25 <br />m.a.f. (7.5 m.a.f. plus 750,000 a.f.). While this <br />administrative practice is probably consistent with <br />Article IV(c) of the 1922 Compact, which provides that <br />until a need for water in the Upper Basin materializes <br />the upper Basin may not withhold water from an actual <br />need in the Lower Basin, it affords an opportunity for <br />overdraft on the water apportioned to the Lower Basin. <br />Although this presently may not cause actual shortages <br />in the Upper Basin, as development in the Upper Basin, <br />as well as in the Lower Basin, increases the draft on the <br />river, administration to satisfy the various entitlements <br />to the water is inevitable. <br />It is generally believed that the united states I <br />obligation under the Mexican Treaty is paramount; it <br />constitutes a first call on the Colorado River and most <br />agree that federal officials will take all necessary <br />steps to satisfy this obligation. The problem created <br />by the lack of sufficient water to satisfy all entitle- <br />ments raises a number of complex issues not all of which <br />are capable of resolution at this time. They include: <br /> <br />-13- <br />