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<br /> <br />The Colorado ~,~:,Com~act <br /> <br />It had lon~ been recognized that by reason of the <br /> <br />tremendous possibilities of use and needs of the water of <br /> <br />the River fo:i.~ irpigation, domestic, power, mining, and <br /> <br />industrial purpo:3C~s wi thin the basin proper and adjacent <br /> <br />areas in the United States, the available water supply <br /> <br />would be insufficient. This led to a series of confer- <br /> <br />ences between representatives of the seven basin states <br /> <br />and the United States, resulting in an agreement, known <br /> <br />as the Colorado River Compact, dated November 24, 1922, <br />providing for a d1.vision of the water. (H. Rep. No. 918, <br />70th Cong., 1st Sess., March 15, 1928, p. 32). This <br /> <br />I, <br />,., <br /> <br />Compact 'vvas subs1quently ratified by six of the seven <br /> <br />states and approved by the United States. The Compact, <br />togethor with the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. <br />1057) passed by Congress in 1928, as supplemented by the <br />Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act adopted in 1940 <br />(54 Stat. 744), is now considered the law of the River. <br /> <br />Nature has divided the basin into two parts, geograph- <br /> <br />~J.:" <br />I ' <br />I ' <br />I '.' <br /> <br />f' <br /> <br />ically. BGtween these parts tho River and its tributaries <br />are in deep canyons surrounded by high, rough terrain <br />where irrigation is not possible. This division was recog- <br /> <br />nized in the Coonpact~ which separates the basin into two <br />parts, the llUpper Basinll being that part of the area from <br /> <br />- 2 - <br />