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<br />the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre feet of <br />water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for the <br />supply of any rights which may now exist. <br /> <br />(b) In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a) the Lower <br />Basin is hereby given the right to increase its beneficial consumptive <br />use of such waters by one million acre per annum. <br /> <br />(c) If, as a matter of international comity, the United States <br />of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States or Mexico <br />any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, <br />such waters shall be supplied first from the waters which are surplus <br />over and above the aggregate of the quantities specified in <br />paragraphs (a) and (b); and if such surplus shall prove insufficient <br />for this purpose, then. the burden of such deficiency shall be <br />equally borne by the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin. and whenever <br />necessary the States of the Upper Divisi6n shall deliver at Lee <br />Ferry water to supply one-half of the deficiency so recognized in <br />addition to that provided in paragraph (d). <br /> <br />(d) The s ta tes of the Upper Di vis i on wi 11 not cause the flow of <br />the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 <br />acre feet for any period of ten consecutive years reckoned in con- <br />tinuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October <br />next succeeding the ratification of this compact. <br /> <br />(e) The States of the Upper Division shall not withhold water, <br />and the States of the Lower Division shall not require the delivery <br />of water, which cannot reasonably be appl.ied to domestic and <br />agricultural uses. <br /> <br />(f) Further equitable apportionment of the beneficial uses of <br />the waters of the Colorado River System unapportioned by paragraphs <br />(a), (b) and (c) may be made in the manner provided in paragraph <br />(g) at any time after October first, 1963, if an when either basin <br />shall have reached its total beneficial consumptive use as set out <br />in paragraphs (a) and (b). <br /> <br />(g) In the event of the desire for a further apportionment <br />as provided in paragraph (f) any two Signatory States, acting through <br />their Governors, may give joint notice of,such desire to the Governors <br />of the other signatory States and to the ~resident of the United <br />States of America, and it shall be the duty of the Governor of the <br />signatory states and of the President of the United States of America <br />forthwith to appoint representatives, whose duty it shall be to <br />divide the apportion equitably between th~ Upper Basin and Lower <br />Basin the beneficial use of the unapportioned water of the Colorado <br />River System as mentioned in paragraph (fl, subject to the Legislative <br />ratification of the Signatory States and the Congress of the United <br />States of America. <br /> <br /> <br />ART/CLE IV <br /> <br />(a) Inasmuch as the Colorado River has, ceased to be navigable <br />for commerce and the reservation of its waters for navigation would <br />seriously limit the development of its Basin, the use of its waters <br /> <br />12 <br />