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<br />C2629 <br /> <br />\~ <br /> <br />f'EMuFLP.l'!DUi/ <br /> <br />SUBJECT: V:ater Treaty <br /> <br />California' 8 /Lrguments aild COTllfnents <br />Thereon <br /> <br />1. Arter full development, the water supply will be <br />insuffIcient to meet Lower Basin obligations and <br />Mexico's 1,500,000 acre feet. <br /> <br />A. The COnsensus of eCle:Lnecrs Is thilt after f,~ll <br />development in t he Lower Basin in the United States, <br />appro,xJ.mately one-half of "exico I s allocation - or 750,00C acre <br />feet. - will then be comprised of return .flow. Thus, the United <br />States will receive credit for half of Nexico's allocation without <br />any use or primary wa.ter. The balance remaining represents <br />5 percent of the average annual rlln-off of the Colorado River basin. <br />Thus, in effect, the treaty reserves for the use of the United <br />States approxiloately 95 percent of the vIrgin flow as ag"Inst the <br />approxJ.mately 5 percent allocated to ),:exico, plus return ,and waste <br />waters which would .flm'! to ;'exico in any event. furthermore, <br />there is an escape clause for periods of drought whereby in those <br />periodS trIe water allotted l.exico will be red.uced in the saJne <br />proportion as conswnptive uses in the Unit.ed States are reduced. <br /> <br />'fhis escape clause Is pat.terned after a shular one in <br />the Tre<ity of 1906 with 1,;exic00roviding for the equit/lble dis- <br />tribution of "the waters of the ;(io Grande above Fort :~uitman, which <br />clause has worked satisfactorily in the case of the Rio Grande. <br /> <br />2. California's contracts were the basis for a larfe <br />bonded indebtedness anU now stand to be injured or <br />repudiated b.y this treaty. <br /> <br />A. The coetracts were made subject to thE: Colorado <br />lli vel' ~O"l!Jact a'1d Boulder Pru,ject Act, which envisa/(e <br />a tceaty allOCatinG water to t'exico to CO'IIe first ullt Cor surplus <br />waters not allocated by the COJ1pact, anJ' remaining balance to be <br />borne equally by tile Upper and Lower 3aslns. <br />