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{)00847 -29- 10. The Knapp Plan (Com I d) and greater than the ri ghts of doVltlstreem ditohes entitled them to oall away from upstream appropriators under the prevailing water supply oondi- tions. Suoh over-deliveries to Caddoa Reservoir, it was said, were being used at times e.nd in part to provide the releases frem storage as request- ed by Kansas water offioials, and to overcome the losses of water inci- dent to the storage of supplies reserved for Kansas and the delivery there- of to the place of measurement at the Stateline. The Knapp Plan gives no oonsideration to suoh losses of water at Caddoa Reservoir. It is not here contended that, under the provisions of the 1933 Stipulation and for the 1943 irrigation season, such losses should be taken into aooount, although in future seasons and in connec- tion with surplus carryover storage, suoh losses may require oonsidera- tion. It is applrent, however, since the Knapp Plan attempts to segre- gate stored vater from river supplies and to define the anticipated 1943 surplus in tanns of storage in Caddoa Reservoir, suoh losses should have been taken into acoount. That is to say. sinoe the portion deliver- ed to Kansas was measured at the stateline, the oharges for antioipated surplus de liveries to Kansas should have been inoreased by the amounts lost in storage and oonveyanoe to that point; and sinoe the portion used by Colorado vas oalculated as exoess upstream diversions, the oharges against COlorado should have been diminished by the losses enoountered in oonveyanoe to Caddoa Reservoir, - to the end that both quantities might be evalua.ted in tenns of storage in Caddoa Reservoir. With respeot to a4ministration of the Arkansas River and