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<br />, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, " <br /> <br />served by waters diverted from the System above Lee <br />Ferry. <br /> <br />Article II (g) of the Compact of 1922 defines Lower Basin as: <br /> <br />. . . those parts fo the States of Arizona, California, <br />Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah within and from which <br />waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System <br />below Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States <br />located without the drainage area of the Colorado River <br />System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially <br />served by waters diverted from the System below Lee <br />Ferry. <br /> <br />Article III of the Colorado River Compact of 1922 apportioned <br /> <br />7,500,000 acre-feet of water annually from the Colorado River System to <br /> <br />the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Upper Basin states and <br /> <br />7,500,000 acre-feet to the Lower Basin states. In addition, it awarded to <br /> <br />the Lower Basin the right to increase its beneficial consumptive use of <br /> <br />such waters by 1,000,000 acre-feet per year. Thus the general allocation <br />to the Upper Basin states was made by the Colorado River Compact. One <br />of the lesser known provisions of the Colorado River Compact of 1922, <br /> <br />incidentally, is Article VII, which states: <br /> <br />Nothing in this compact shall be construed as affecting <br />. the obligations of the United States of America to <br />Indian tribes. <br /> <br />Then, in 1948, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact apportioned <br />the Upper Basin's 7,500,000 acre-feet as follows: <br /> <br />Arizona - 50,000 acre-feet per year <br />-:=;/. <br />Colorado -'S~..}5% of the remainder of the 7,500,000 <br />acre-feet after Arizona's 50,000 ac"e.~f. t had <br />been provided, or a total of f,855,375 re- <br />feet <br /> <br />(ji~ <br /> <br />~ <br />New Mexico - 11.25%, or ~37 ,562.'5, acre-feet <br />~ ,,< -'3"''6,/2.5 <br />Utah - 23%, 0(1,712,350\acre-feet IPI'$/,,0 <br /> <br />Wyoming - 14%, or 1,042,300 acre-feet/ 6ci'L au\:! <br />I "J/ <br /> <br />0171 <br /> <br />2 <br />