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<br />Colorado has llev.er brought a~ interstate water suit and hall <br /> <br />always stood ready and Willing to enter upon negotiations looking to <br />friendly settlements of asserted ilajuries. But other states have made <br /> <br />repeated attaeks, througp interstate suits involving Colorado streams, <br /> <br /> <br />without affording an opp01.tUl!lity of friendly adjustmEmt. Colo.rado's present <br /> <br />9J!ld future deve1cpment is and.will be almost wholly depeRdant upon a <br /> <br />reasonable use of the waters of the streams that rise and flow within <br /> <br />her border s . Water i s tlae verry life b10l>d of Colorad0 alld her insti tutiol9.s. <br /> <br />While our cities and arid plains compel U$ '\;0 take a small part of the <br /> <br />flew of our 'll'9sterm streams to the easterlll. plailQ.s through tunnels, the <br /> <br />topography of our state is such that in no illst8J3.0e may sueh diversions <br /> <br /> <br />blleome Wlreasollable and by reaseR of nat1lilll.al eOllditions, the major P!irt of <br /> <br />the waters of all our streams must for all time flow into 0ther states. <br /> <br />The State Q:I: Califernia probably offers the most striking <br /> <br />Gilliample of illter-stream diversions in point 0:1: :aUlllber and div@rsity. Xhere <br />*he preSsure of the need for water :1:01' mUl!lieipal, irrigatio_ smd power <br />utilization has eempelled, and is oempelling,ip plaas fer the future, the <br />piereiag of mo~tain barriers Qy mean. of long t~els, pipelines and <br />eanals for withdrawal of large volumes of water F'th@ area of i1'igin to <br />a foreigm. fie.ld for utilization. Dl. the East the gr<millg Ilo@ds of the City <br />of New York point the finger of inV$stigation to water supplies far field <br />and teuoh~g upon stream flow of Conneotioutt, New J@rsey alld PenRsylvania. <br /> <br />-.. <br /> <br />Our lae:l.ghboring ma~taia states are similarly sit1:\ll.ted. While. <br />im iselated eue., the applioation of general primoiples detrimElllltal to the <br />