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<br /> <br />-.._---'-_._"--------~.__._--~._---".._-_._. <br /> <br />be had between the states as a pre-requisite ta the expenditure ef publie <br /> <br />funds. But UIIlfutUl1ately me sueh poliey has been fellewed. The rights <br /> <br />ef the nates have beam ~gnered, the fUll.ds have been expended and ean- <br /> <br /> <br />struetien nas been fallewad, rather than preeeded. by attemp~s to eeeree. <br /> <br /> <br />the statesaf erigin inte a reeegnitien er perpetual and e~elusive <br />. , <br />i <br />servitudes upelll 'hheir streams fer the bel!l.ef:i:t ef the territory sf l'leighber- <br /> <br />ing states. <br /> <br />The m<llUllltaiB. sbates have beell Ull.fer111mately penalized h <br /> <br />iecal and private develepment in erder te bri~g8beut temperary menepelies <br /> <br />ef their waner supplies, Ran far nhGO first benefit af their territery but <br /> <br />fer the supply af water fer geveramGOnt prajeets in lewer states witheub <br /> <br />permitting first use in the state of erigil'l with sub&e'quemt returlll and <br /> <br /> <br />re-use i19. lewer states. This, UlIlfertUJllately, has beeR aee.mpli_~hreugh. <br /> <br /> <br />eeoperative end 'eon.eerted aetion e~ varieus federal departmeIl'ts ili the <br /> <br />dellial of rights of way over goverlame:at lands for priV'ate or quasi-public <br /> <br /> <br />emterpriaes in the upper stat.es thereby preventil'lg the 0,enstruetien e f <br /> <br /> <br />these enterprises 9.l1ld retarding further d9ve1epmelAt' at the sourses sf' the <br /> <br /> <br />streams involved. <br /> <br />The last melil.thne4 dd Ultfet"ll_t1J peli0(y MSllet eldy be'SlIl <br />very detrimeutal te the states by retaraiag reelamatieJl, of their lends <br /> <br />and develepment of' their territory ~ but has telldeci te impair ll$l1If'idenes <br />v i19. glllvsrllll1ent1ageneies and has dis_bed. the llemity between the states <br />hvelvecl.. Jlt is saf'e to praa.1et that 'tin$' 1iUaf'ertuaate situatielll..eould <br /> <br />have been aveided by interstate understandings 8.1:ld eemp!l.ets, in eseperati$:Iil <br />with the United states, eonsidered and entered imhe prier to the expend:Lii'il!re <br />