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use of 7,500,000 acre feet of water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for <br />the supply of any rights which may now exist. <br />(b) In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a) the Lower Basin is hereby given <br />the right to increase its beneficial consumptive use of such waters by one million acre per <br />' annum. <br />(c) If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter <br />' recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the <br />Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from the waters which are <br />surplus over and above the aggregate of the quantities specified in paragraphs (a) and (b); <br />' and if such surplus shall prove insufficient for this purpose, then, the burden of such <br />deficiency shall be equally borne by the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin, and whenever <br />necessary the States of the Upper Division shall deliver at Lee Ferry water to supply one- <br />half of the deficiency so recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph (d). <br />(d) The states of the Upper Division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry <br />to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre feet for any period of ten <br />consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day <br />of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact. <br />' (e) The States of the Upper Division shall not withhold water, and the States of the <br />Lower Division shall not require the delivery of water, which cannot reasonably be <br />applied to domestic and agricultural uses. <br />(f) Further equitable apportionment of the beneficial uses of the waters of the <br />Colorado River System unapportioned by paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) may be made in the <br />manner provided in paragraph (g) at any time after October first, 1963, if and when either <br />' basin shall have reached its total beneficial consumptive use as set out in paragraphs (a) <br />and (b). <br />' (g) In the event of a desire for a further apportionment as provided in paragraph (f) <br />any two signatory States, acting through their Governors, may give joint notice of such <br />desire to the Governors of the other signatory States and to the President of the United <br />' States of America, and it shall be the duty of the Governor of the signatory states and of <br />the President of the United States of America forthwith to appoint representatives, whose <br />duty it shall be to divide and apportion equitably between the Upper Basin and Lower <br />' Basin the beneficial use of the unapportioned water of the Colorado River System as <br />mentioned in paragraph (f), subject to the Legislative ratification of the signatory States <br />and the Congress of the United States of America. <br />Article IV <br />(a) Inasmuch as the Colorado River has ceased to be navigable for commerce and the <br />reservation of its waters for navigation would seriously limit the development of its <br />Basin, the use of its waters for purpose of navigation shall be subservient to the uses of <br />such waters for domestic, agricultural and power purposes. If the Congress shall not <br />' consent to this paragraph, the other provisions of this compact shall nevertheless remain <br />binding. <br />