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t <br />lower basin states (below Lee's Ferry) resulting from the Supreme Court decision, have the <br />generally accepted values listed below: <br />Arizona 2.8 maf 3,452 x 106 M3 <br />California 4.4 maf 5,425 x 106 M3 <br />Nevada _ 0.3 maf 370 x 106 M3 <br />Total lower basin states 7.5 maf 9,247 x 106 M3 <br />The premise of this White Paper is to propose and examine the idea of augmenting the amount <br />of water that Nevada can consume from the river by constructing desalting plants in Mexico to <br />replace a portion of the 1.5 maf (1,850 x 106 M3) allocation of Mexico with a new higher quality <br />resource. The amount of water produced annually by the desalting plants will be delivered <br />south of the International Boundary in Mexico and an equivalent amount of water can then be <br />consumed annually by the State of Nevada at Lake Mead. <br />This White Paper presents a reconnaissance level exposition of the Mexico /Nevada water <br />exchange concept and discusses, on a preliminary basis, the issues, benefits, costs, advantages <br />and disadvantages of such a project. <br />3.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />Physical facilities that need to be constructed to enable the above described water exchange <br />will consist of seawater or brackish water desalting plants in Mexico and pumping plants, <br />pipelines and reservoirs to convey and distribute the desalted water to the end users in the <br />Mexicali - San Luis Valley area of the State of Baja, Mexico. Desalted water might also be <br />delivered to the vicinity of San Luis Rio Colorado in the State of Sonora, and the potential <br />resort area of Golfo De Santa Clara. <br />8 4 Carollo Black & Veatch <br />