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(h) The term "domestic use" shall include the use of <br />water for household, stock, municipal, mining, milling, indus- <br />trial, and other like purposes, but shall exclude the generation <br />of electrical power. <br />Article III <br />(a) There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River <br />System in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin, <br />respectively, the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of <br />7,500,000 acre-feet of water per annum, which shall include a11 <br />water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now <br />exist. <br />(b) In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a), <br />the Lower Basin is hereby given the right to increase its <br />beneficial consumptive use of such waters by one million acre- <br />feet per annum. <br />(c) If, as a matter of international comity, the United <br />States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United <br />States of riexico any right to the use of any waters of the <br />Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from <br />the waters which are surplus over and above the aggregate of <br />the quantities specified in paragraphs (a) and (b); and if <br />such surplus shall prove insufficient for this purpose, then, <br />the burden of such deficiency shall be equally borne by the <br />Upper Basin and the Lower Ba.sin, and whenever necessary the <br />States of the Upper Division shall deliver at Lee Ferry water <br />to supply one-half of the deficiency so recognized in addition <br />to that provided in paragraph (d). <br />-- (d) The States of the Upper Division will not-cause the <br />flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate <br />of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years <br />reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the <br />first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this <br />compact. <br />(e) The States of the Upper Division sha11 not withhold <br />water, and the States of the Lower Division shall not require <br />the delivery of water, which cannot reasonably be applied to <br />domestic and agricultural uses. <br />(f) Further equitable apportionment of the beneficial uses <br />of the waters of the Colorado River System unapportioned by <br />paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) may be made in the manner provided <br />in paragraph (g) at any time after October first, 19635 if and <br />when either Basin shall have reached its total beneficial con- <br />sumptive use as set out in paragraphs (a) and (b). <br />-2-