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<br />(d) The terlll ;;:='Hate~ of 1he Lower Uiyisinn" lIIenus tl1e <br />St.ates of ArizOlw, California alHI Ne\'ada. <br />(e) The term ;'Lee Fel'l'Y~''''lleans a pornt ill the main stream <br />'of the Colorado Hin,-'r OIlC mile below the mouth of the l'arin. <br />HiyeI', <br />(f) The terlll "Upper Ba~iu" means thfl~e pfll't:o; of the States <br />of Arizona, Colol'adn, ~ew Mexito, Vtah i1Inl "'yomin!; within HlHl <br />from wl1ich watel'~ naturally drain iuto the Colol'l111o RiH'r S\'s- <br />tem alllwe Lee FelTY, anrl ~l!'o all parts of said States lOfatel'J <br />w)thout the (lrainagc area of the COI0l'1Il1f) Rin~r Systelll which <br />are now or sl1allllCreaftel' lie heneficially :'ienell hy waters di,'el'ted <br />from tlle System f1ho"e Lee Ferry, <br />(g) The terUl "Lower Basin" means. those l'~lI'ts of the ~:;tates <br />of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexito aud Utah witLlin and <br />frotH which waters naturally drnill into the COIOr:lllo lUver Hystcm <br />below Lee Ferry, and also ~;II pads of said State8 locateu without <br />tl1e drainage area of tile Colorallo Hirer ~Jstem whieh are <br />now or ::;hall hereafter llc uenclll'ially ser\'ell hy water:,; diverted <br />fl'OIll the 8,rf:item beluw Lee Ferry. <br /> <br />(h) 'fhe term "domestic use~' shall indude the use of water <br />for househol(l, stoek~ lllunicipal, ll1illill~~ milling, iudu:-3trial and <br />other like IJIll'poses~ bnt shull exclnrle the generation of electrieal <br />power. <br /> <br />AHTICLE II I <br /> <br />(a) There is herehy apportionelI from the Culorado HiveI' <br />System ill perpetuity to t.hc Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin, <br />respecthely, the exdm~ive beneficial consulllptive u~e uf 7,.:iOO,OOO <br />aC~I'e feet of water pel' :lnnlllll~ which shall include all water <br />necessary for the supply of any l'ight~ whkh Illay now exist. <br />(b) In addition to the npportiOJllllcllt in paragraph (3), <br />the Lower Ba:-;in is herehy given the right to inl'l'ease its bene- <br />ficial tOllsumpti,'e use of such Wi1tel'~ by one million acre,feet <br />pel' flnnlllIl. <br />(c) If, as a matter of internatiunal cOlllit,"~ the United <br />States of America sball hereafter recognize in tlte United States <br />of Mexico any l'igllt to tlJe use of an." \\'atel'~ of the Colorauo <br />Rh'er 8'yfo;tem~ such water~ shull he supplied fil'f.;t from the wateJ's <br />which are surplus ovcr anel ahove the aggregate of the qnantities <br />specified in paragraphs (3) awl (h); and if !Such ~U1'pI118 shall <br />pro\'e insuffit:iellt for this purpose. tJlen the IJllrclen of ~uch defi- <br />deney shall he equnlly lHJl'ne hy the Upper Ba~in and the Lower <br />Basin. and whenever Jleeessary the State~ of the Upper Division <br />~hall lleli"cl' ut tltc Lee Ferry W:1.tel' to supply oue,half of the de- <br />fieienfY so J'ecognized in additinn to that proYJ(le<1 in paragraph <br />(d), <br />(d) 'l'lie States of the Upper Basin will not cause the tlow of <br />the river at Lee FelTY to be deplcteu below an ~Iggl'egate of jil,OnO,- <br /> <br />[ 11 ] <br /> <br />-' "=",>,. <br /> <br />_----;1 <br />