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III(a) There is hereby apportioned from the <br />Colorado River System in perpetuity to the <br />Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin <br />respectively the exclusive beneficial <br />consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre feet of <br />water per annum, which shall include all <br />water necessary for the supply of any rights <br />which may now exist. <br />III(c) If, as a matter of international comity, the <br />United States of America shall hereafter recognize <br />in the United States of Mexico any right to the use <br />of any waters of the Colorado River System, such <br />waters shall be supplied first from the waters <br />which are surplus over and above the aggregate <br />of the quantities specified in paragraphs (a) and <br />(b); and if such surplus shall prove insufficient <br />for this purpose, then, the burden of such deficiency <br />shall be equally borne by the Upper Basin and the <br />Lower Basin, and whenever necessary the States of <br />the Upper Division shall deliver at Lee Ferry <br />water to supply one -half of the deficiency so <br />recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph <br />(d). <br />• III(e) The States of the Upper Division shall <br />not withhold water, and the States of the <br />Lower Division shall not require the <br />delivery of water, which cannot reasonably <br />be applied to domestic and agricultural uses. <br />• III(b) In addition to the apportionment in <br />paragraph (a) the Lower Basin is hereby <br />given the right to increase its beneficial <br />consumptive use of such waters by one <br />million acre per annum. <br />III(d) The states of the Upper Division will <br />not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry <br />to be depleted below an aggregate of <br />75,000,000 acre feet for any period of ten <br />consecutive years reckoned in continuing <br />progressive series beginning with the first <br />day of October next succeeding the <br />ratification of this compact. <br />IV(b) Subject to the provisions of this compact, <br />water of the Colorado River System may be <br />impounded and used for the generation of electrical <br />power, but such impounding and use shall be <br />subservient to the use and consumption of such <br />water for agricultural and domestic purposes and <br />shall not interfere with or prevent use for such <br />dominant purposes. <br />N(c) The provisions of this article shall not apply <br />to or interfere with the regulation and control by <br />any state within its boundaries of the appropriation, <br />use and distribution of water. <br />OA <br />