Colorado River Presented by CWCB and Colorado Attorney General's Office 2005

• Description: Colorado River Presented by CWCB and Colorado Attorney General's Office 2005
• State: CO
• Title: Colorado River Presented by CWCB and Colorado Attorney General's Office 2005
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

The apportionment made to the respective states is based upon, and
shall be applied in conformity with, the following principles:
(1) The apportionment is of any and all man -made depletions;"
(2) Beneficial use is the basis, the measure and the limit of the
right to use;
(3) No state shall exceed the apportioned use in any water year
when the effect of such excess use, as determined by the commission, is
to deprive another signatory state of its apportioned use during
the water year; provided, that this shall not be construed as:
(i) Altering the apportionment of use, or obligations to
make deliveries as provided in this compact; ; - if
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(ii) Purporting to apportion among the signatory states such v-
uses of water as the upper basin may be entitled to in the Colorado River
Compact; or r5 . e�
(iii) Countenancing average uses by any signatory state in
excess of its apportionment.
(4) The apportionment to each state includes all water necessary
for the supply of any rights which now exist (prior to 1949).