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001476 the fact that you have a permanent guaranty of 7,500,000 acre-feet?"133 The intended equality of the Upper Basin and Lower Basin apportionment was remarked upon by Hoover as follows: Now, one of the fundamental things in safe- guarding the proper normal development of the basin is the principle of what we have designated, for lack of a better term, equation. I think that principle is proper because, if we did not have it, we simply would have a race between the upper basin and lower basin for accumulation of appropriation rights. And if we can decide on the principles first, that we thrust the equitable division of the river on some future period, second, that we temporarily establish some basis of maximum, and third, that we :establish the principle of equa- tion, we reduce the entire problem to one, i.e., the solution of the maximum.134 stephen Davis also suggested that the II idea of an equation between the two divisions" undergirded the Compact.13S As Hoover indicated, a corollary of the principle of equation, or equality, was that the amount of water appor- tioned to each Basin be adequate to accommodate its present and future needs and to protect it from the affects of the development of the other Basin. In this vein Carpenter declared: The whole theory of the compact is this: That the water apportioned to each basin is adequate not only for its present uses, but for the increase of development within each basin.136 Hoover also remarked: ... we make now, for lack of a better word I may call a temporary equitable division, reserving a certain portion of the flow of the river to the hand of those men who may come after us, ... that they can make a further division of the river at such time, and in the meantime we shall take such -51-