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<br /> <br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />14 <br /> <br />. 52 <br />acre-feet as the average annual flol< of the rIver. The compact also stipulates <br /> <br />that "the states of the Upper Division will not calise the nO\I of the river at <br /> <br />"~ <br /> <br />~ Lee Ferry tc, be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any <br />:~ <br /> <br />, period of ten consecutive years" in a progression of such ten year periods beg- <br />53 <br />inning at a said date. <br /> <br />There was also the question of Mexico's share of the Colorado flOlI, as it <br /> <br />does run through Mexico in its' final one hundred miles b"fore emptying into <br /> <br />th .. 54 <br />e Gulf of CalIfornIa. <br /> <br />During negotiation of the compact, ho\{ov"r, Mexico <br /> <br />, <br />? <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />was in the midst of a turbulent struggle for pOI""r which resul ted in the i'lSCOn- <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />sion of a president whom the United States did not recognize until 1923, months <br />55 <br />after the compact was negotiated and signed by six of the seven states. <br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />, <br />,.. <br /> <br />,~ <br />.\ <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Seemingly in step with the national agenda for taking care of domestic issues, <br /> <br />,', <br />,~ <br />J <br />.. <br /> <br />Hoover insisted that the compact was exclusively a domestic concern and that <br /> <br />the Cormnission lfilS not a forum for international agreements. Hoover, however, <br /> <br />, <br />" <br /> <br />did try to console the Mexicans by assuring them that an international agree- <br /> <br />~t would be signed in the future regarding their share of the river that could <br />. d . t . d d 56 <br />"overn e any Inters ate arrangements" If nee e . <br /> <br />In the Compact itself there is a provision for consideration of Nexican <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />needs that basically states that if the United States sees fit to accord the <br /> <br />'i <br /> <br />Mexicans any rights to the Colorado River, then such deliveries of water would <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />be supplied from the surplUS that might remain after the 15 million acre-feet <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />had been supplied to each basin. It goes on to say that if such surplus proves <br /> <br />? <br /> <br />insufficient it is the duty of each basin to provide one-half of the \rater to <br />1. . .. 57 <br />Il'ake up for t 11S cefIclency. <br /> <br />The Mexicans \lould have to ,[ait another 22 years, <br /> <br />Wltil 1944, before they would receive a specific allotment of water. Hoover himself <br /> <br />said later in 1929 that one of the four main reasons for the construction of <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />,} <br />, <br />." <br />~ <br /> <br />~7r.c.'t~i, !.-..b- ,.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />- <br />