Law of the River CWCB short version ‎(S Rosset O'Donovan)‎.pdf

• Statements of Opp - Doc Type: Misc

Anticipation of Treaty with Mexico
If, as a matter of international comity, the [US] shall hereafter
recognize in [Mexico] any right to the use of any waters of the
Colorado River system, such waters shall be supplied first from the
waters which are surplus over and above the aggregate of the
quantities specified in paragraphs (a) and (b); and if such surplus
shall prove insufficient for this purpose, then the burden of
such deficiency shall be equally borne by the upper basin and
the lower basin, and whenever necessary the States of the
upper division shall deliver at Lee Ferry water to supply one -
half of the deficiency so recognized in addition to that provided in
paragraph (d). Article III(c)