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50 <:> (,IJ Cf) 00 under "Agreed Priueiples of International Law." Tho recommendation provided: Co-riparians should take immediate action to prevent further pollution and should study and put into effect all practicable meaus of reducing to a less harmful degree present uses which lead to pollution.'" In addition to tho resolutions of private associations sot forth above, the Seventh International Conference of American States held at Montevideo in 1933 adopted a declaration concerning "Industrial and Agricultural Use of International River,s." The declaration states in part: 2. The states have the exclusive right to exploit, for industrial or agricultural purposes, the margin which is under their jurisdiction, of the waters of inter- national rivers. This right, however, is conditioned in its exercise upon the necessity of not injuring tho equal right due to the neighboring state on the margin under its jurisdiction. In consequence, no state may, without the consent of the other riparian state, introduce into water courses of an international character, for the indus- trial or agricultural exploitation of their waters, any alteration which may prove injurious to the margin of the other interested state.80 In 1958 the Department of State submitted a memoran- dum to Congress concerning the international law appli- cable to the proposed diversions by Canada from the Kootenay River." The memorandum stated that rules . . 70 Report of the Forty-Eighth Conference, International Law Association (New York 1958). 8028 Amer. J. of Int'} Law, Supp. 59 (1934). The United States delegation withheld approval of the decla.ration concerning the Industrial and Agricultural Use of International Waters stating that the declaration was: not sufficiently comprehensive in scope to- be properly applicable to the particular problems involved in the adjustment of its rights in the international rivers in which it is interested. 81 Legal Aspects of the Use of Systems or International Waters with Referonce to Kootenay-Columbia River System under Customary International Law and the Treaty of 1909. Memorandum of Dopartment of StH,to, S. Doc. 118, 85th Cong., 2d S.ss. (1958). r I .