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<br />i <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />21 <br /> <br />=* <br />W <br />W <br />.(C <br /> <br />into three parts: testimony indicating that the parties <br />intended to credit the United States for all return flow, <br />regardless of quality; testimony indicating that credit was <br />to be received for waters of any kind; and testimony that <br />waters to be delivered would correspond to that utilized <br />by lower users in the United States. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />a. Credit for Return Flow Watersl <br />Regardless of Quality <br /> <br />In testimony before the ]'oreign Relations Committee, <br />L. M. Lawson, American Commissioncr on the Inter- <br />national Boundary Commission who had headcd thc United <br />States negotiating team, emphasized the difference be- <br />tween the proposed treaty and the Mead offer of 1929 which <br />had been rejected by Mexico, indicating that the treaty <br />would give credit to the United States for return flow <br />waters: <br /> <br />Mr. Lawson. The treaty itself fixes for all time the <br />obligation of the United States and the amount of <br />water which Mexico will receive. 'l'hat amount of <br />water we believe is eveu less than was offered to <br />Mexico in 1929, because, in just the reverse of that <br />offer, this treaty proposes to credit the United States <br />with all the return flow in the river, all the waste water <br />that may arrive at the boundary line,''' which has been <br />estimated, in various ways, by various persons, to <br />amount to, we will say, an average of at least 900,000 <br />acre-feet. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />:3<.1 "Waste wa.ter" was defined by n, J. Tipton, a consulting engineer <br />present during the negotiation of the treaty, in the following: <br /> <br />Mr. Tipton. Now, as a pal't of l'cttl1ll How, it must be unclerstood that <br />thoro arc what arc called wastes. I choose to caU them regulation lo88es. <br />"Waste" is an odiolls word "vhell we arc denling with water. There must <br />bo a certain amount of water in a caJwl to carry tho bnlance of the <br />water thl'ought [sic 1 to the cnd of the ennal. It is impossible to carry <br />to tho onel of tlw ~anal tho 'oxact ,amount tltu.t is going to be ncedc(l <br />at that point. So we necessarily have to hu.ve regulation rctUl'l~s. . . . <br /> <br />Hearings Beforo the Se"nato Committee on Foreign Relations on Treaty, with <br />Mexico Relating to tho Utilizrrtion of the Waters of Certain Rivers, 79th <br />Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 3, 969 (1945-) (hereina.fter cited as Hea.rings). <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />r-..-----'---------- <br /> <br />