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LAW OF THE COLORADO RIVER REGARDING "USE" <br />COLORADO RIVER COMPACT <br />Article ZII <br />(a) There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River System in <br />perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin respectively <br />the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre feet <br />of water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for <br />the supply of any rights which may now exist. <br />(d) The states of the Upper Division will not cause the flow of <br />the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of <br />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 shall not withhold water, <br />and the States of the Lower Division shall not require the deliv- <br />ery af water, which cannot reasonably be applied to domestic and <br />agricultural uses. <br />Article VIZI <br />Present perfected rights to the beneficial use of waters of the <br />-Colorado River System are unimpaired by this compact. Whenever <br />storage capacity of 5,000,000 acre feet shall have been provided <br />on the main Colorado River within or for the benefit of the Lower <br />Basin, then claims of such rights, if any, by appropriators or <br />---- --- users of waters in the Lower Basin, against appropriators or <br />users of water in the Upper Basin shall attach to and be satis- <br />fied from water that may be stored not in conflict with Article <br />III. <br />All other rights to beneficial use of waters of the Colorado <br />River System shall be satisfied solely from the water apporti <br />to that Basin in which they are situate. <br />IIPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN COMPACT <br />Article III <br />(a) 5ubject to the provisions and limitations contained in the <br />Colorado river compact and in this compact, there is hereby ap- <br />portioned from the upper Colorado river system in perpetuity to <br />the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, <br />respectively, the consumptive use of water as follows: <br />(1) To the state of Arizona the consumotive use oP 50,000