9367 ‎(3)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9367
• Author: Colorado Water Workshop.
• Title: Proceedings
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Colorado Water Workshop July 22-24, 1992.
• Copyright Material: NO

provided that before it became effective all seven states had
to ratify the Compact, or that six states, includinq Califor-
nia, ratify and that California also enact ~eqislation
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confininq itself to no more than 4.4 m. a. f. (miilion acre--
feet) of the 7.5 m.a.f. apportioned to the. lower states by
Article III(a), plus not more than half of the surplus water
unapportioned by the Compact. It also pre-approved any
compact ~nich Arizona, California and Nevada miqht enter into
apportioninq 300,000 acre-feet of the Article III (a) water to

Nevada, 2.S m.a.f. to Arizona, and 4.4 m.a.f. or l~ss to
California, allowinq Arizona exclusive beneficial use of the
waters of the Gila, and exemptinq the Gila Arizona's tribu-
taries from any obliqation to supply water to Mexico under
Article III (c) and requirinq that the Mexican burden be
fulfilled equally by California and Arizona fro. mainstream

water.

C. The Mexican Treaty of 1944
On February 3, 1944, the United states and Mexico siqned
a "Treaty ... Relatinq To Waters of the Colorado! and Tijuana
Rivers and Of The Rio Grande," T.S. No. 994, 5 stat. 1219
(1944). Mexico was thouqht to have been usi
m.a.f. as of 194417 (as opposed to about 820,000
of 1922)is primarily to irriqate croplands in
Mexicali Valley, which lies in the same basin as

e Imperial

Valley. Article X af the Treaty quarantee an annual
delivery of 1.5 m.a.f. of water to Mexico and a additional

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