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<br />000359 <br /> <br />DRAFT-Not for distribution <br /> <br />42 16 U.S.C. 9715c. <br />43 16 U.S.C. 9 715d (1). <br />44 16 U.S.C. 9 715d (2). <br />45 16 U.S.C. 99 703 et seq. <br />46 16 U.S.C. 9704 (a). <br />47 16 U.S.C. 99715 et seq. <br />48 16 U.S.C. S 715a. <br />49 16 U.S.C. 9718d. <br />50 16 U.S.C. 9715a. <br /> <br />51 Other boundary disputes were settled in later agreements. <br /> <br />52 Mexican Water Treaty, Article 5. <br /> <br />53 350,000 acre feet of water, averaged over five year cycles, from six named (Rio Conchos, <br />Arroyo de las Vacas, Rio San Diego, Rio San Rodrigo, Rio Escondido, Rio Salado) and other <br />unnamed Mexican tributaries in the Lower Reach of the Rio Grande. Id, Article 4B( c). <br /> <br />54 Id, Articles 10, 15. These deliveries are mandatory, except that, in the event of extraordinary <br />drought or serous accident to the irrigation system in the United States, the water allotted to <br />Mexico will be reduced in the same proportion as consumptive uses in the United States are <br />reduced. The United States' promise regarding the Colorado River was made in exchange for <br />certainty and limitation of the Mexican claim for additional Colorado River water premised on <br />additional use, rather than as a quid pro quo for Mexican promises of delivery of Rio Grande <br />tributary water. Hundley, Norris, Jr., Dividing the Waters, A Century of Controversy Between <br />the United States and l\lfexico, University of Cali fomi a Press, Berkeley, CA, 1966, at 41-136. <br /> <br />55 Id, Art. 2, 3,24 and 25. <br />56 Id, Art. 2. <br /> <br />57 Comision lntemacional de Limites y Aguas (ClLA) (Mexican counterpart ofIBWC). <br /> <br />58 Mexican Water Treaty, Art. 2, paragraph 3. <br /> <br />59 Id, Art. 25. Minutes may be adopted by formal recognition or by acquiescence and are not to <br />be regarded as amendments to existing treaties, as such an assumption raises separation of power <br />problems and the Treaty Clause ofthe U.S. Constitution, Art. II., 9 2, cl. 2. <br /> <br />28 <br />