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Compacts, Decrees, and Treaties Affecting CO's Water
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4. <br />resist any Japanese invasion from thaL source. Niexico <br />for such accommodation. The water treaty of 1944 was <br />that price. Ironically, World War II was over within <br />after the United States Senate ratified the treaty. <br />Upper Colorado River Basin Compact <br />had a price <br />a part of <br />a few months <br />It should be noted again that the Colorado River Campact of <br />1322 did not apportion water to the respective states, but only to <br />the upper and lower basins of the Colorado River. Twenty-six <br />years afCer the signing of the Colorado River Compact, the states <br />of the Upper Colorado River Basin, through their various commis- <br />sioners, signed the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact at Santa Fe, <br />New Mexico, on October 11, 1948. This compact was subsequently <br />ratiā¬ied by the legislatures of all five Upper Colorado River Basin <br />states, including Arizona (which in 1944 had at long last ratified <br />the Colorado River Compact). Some of the key provisions of the <br />Upper Basin Compact are as follows: <br />Article III <br />(a) Subject to the nrovisions and limitations contained <br />in the Colorado River Compact and in this Compact, there is <br />hereby apportioned from the Upper Colorado River System in <br />perpetuiCy to the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, <br />Utah and Wyoming, respectively, the consumptive use of water <br />as follows : <br />(1) To the State of Arizona the consumptive use of <br />50,000 acre-feet of water per annum. <br />(2) To the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and <br />Wyoming, respectively, the consumptive use per <br />annum of the quantities resulting from the applica- <br />tion of the following percentages to the total <br />quantity of consumptive use per annum apportioned <br />in perpetuity to and available for use each year <br />by Upper Basin under the Colorado River Compact and <br />remaining after the deduction of the use, not to <br />exceed 50,000 acre-feet per annum, ma.de in the <br />State of Arizona. <br />SCate of Colorado 51.75 per cent, <br />State of New IvIexico 11.25 per cent, <br />State of Utah 23.00 per cent, <br />Stiate of Wyoming 14.00 per cent <br />-9-
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