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<br />. <br /> <br />MR. LAWSON. I think the treaty provides for a situa- <br />tion where the water can be firmed up with upstream supply <br />to prevent too much salinity. That is the idea of the <br />provision for 375,000 acre-feet being delivered through <br />the All-American Canal. <br /> <br />SENATOR DOWNEY. The question I am asking you, Mr. <br />Lawson, is this: Assume that some of the water is saline <br />beyond the normal irrigation practices and to such an ex- <br />tent as to constitute a burden upon its use. You still <br />think, nevertheless, that under this treaty Mexico would <br />have no implied guaranty as to the usability of the water? <br /> <br />MR. LAWSON. There is no such implication there. <br /> <br />SENATOR DOWNEY. Are you also just as positive that <br />when the expression ~l,500,OOO acre-feet" is used, it <br />means over-all water and not consumptive use? <br /> <br />MR. LAWSON. I think, Senator, that the statement in <br />the treaty which limits the amount to Mexico to l~ million <br />acre-feet is the limit of right that she might have in the <br />waters of the Colorado River. <br /> <br />SENATOR DOWNEY. But you have not yet answered the <br />question. Is it a million and a half acre-feet of con- <br />sumptive use, or of water? <br /> <br />MR. LAWSON. It is a million and a half acre-feet of <br />water. <br /> <br />SENATOR DOVlNEY. Why is the word "water" then, left <br />out of the treaty in every place after the 1,500,000 <br />acre-feet? <br /> <br />MR. LAWSON. Because, having said it once, there is <br />no use for repetition." <br /> <br />Bottom of P. llll to middle of P. lll2: <br /> <br />"SENATOR DOvlNEY. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * <br /> <br />Now, the proponents from the State Department have <br />very strongly maintained, and have been fortified by <br />people from the Bureau of Reclamation, that between two- <br />thirds and three-fourths of all water that will go to <br /> <br />-37- <br />