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<br />Q <br />tiS: <br />Co\) <br />Q} <br /> <br />18 <br /> <br /> <br />account the rights of both countries along certain general <br />lines, including the following: <br /> <br />c. Delivery to Mexico of an annual volume of the waters <br />of the Colorado River determined by the proportion <br />between the amounts now used, the urban and farm <br />requirements existing in the valley of 'the river in <br />the territory of the two countries, and the reasonable <br />and just possibilities of extension of the said require- <br />ments in the future?' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Thereafter it appears that the Department of State pre- <br />sented a memorandum'" to the Mexican Ambassador <br />wherein the Department offered 900,000 acre-feet of stored <br />water of the Colorado River to Mexico, delivered accord- <br />ing to a monthly schedule most convenient to the require- <br />ments of Mexico. Subsequently the Mexican Ambassador <br />presented a counter-proposal indicating that approximately <br />2,000,000 acre-feet of water would be acceptable.'o In <br />response the Department of State indicated that, <br /> <br />being desirous of obtaining the most satisfactory <br />arrangements practicable from the point of view of the <br />two countries, suggests for the consideration of the <br />Mexican Government that, because of the great value <br />of controlled water aud the very heavy expenditures <br />made by the United States in the erection of Boulder <br />Dam and other storage facilities, provision for the <br />assured delivery to Mexico in perpetuity according to <br />a fixed monthly schedule of 1,150,000 acre feet of <br />regulated and controlled water from the Colorado <br />River Basin would afford satisfactory adjustment of <br />this aspect of the problem. It would be understood <br />that this quantity wonld represent the total assured <br />deliveries to Mexico from any source whatsoever of <br />the Colorado River Basin and its tributaries in the <br />United States." <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />28 Foreign Relations of the United States,_ Vol. VII, 1941, 379. <br />29 This memorandum is not reprinted in Foreign Relations. <br />$0 Foreign Relatione of the United States, Vol. VI, 1942, 547. <br />., rd. at 548. <br /> <br />"r"'~~""r:';"~"'''''-''-''''''~1\'''''''''"-:--'' ".. '-""':-~~'''''''''''~-',''''';-'~''"' ".;,. , .- '---:','-"_""""'" ">r:'";',_~'-~'''"'~''''''-:C'_"'-':"'~"",",:",,---~~''''''''''''' <br />