BOARD01455

• Board Meeting Date: 6/9/1942
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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Direotor stone presented the proposed draft of a statement of polioy of the
State of Colorado regarding the allocation cf v~ter tc the Republio of Mexioo,
such draft having been prepared by the subccmmittee appointed by the ohair.

Each paragraph of the statement was disoussed in detail and approved
changes made.

It ,;as moved by Direotor Stone and meconded by Mr. Dille, and
oarried by unanimous vote of the board that the following statement
of policy to guide the representatives of the State of Colorado at
the deliberations of the COIT~ittee of Fourteen, Colorado River Basin,
regarding the question of allocation of ~~ter betwee~ the United
States and Mexioo be approved and adopted,

"POSITION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO RESPECTmG THE ALLOCATION OF
WATER BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO

1. It is the sense of the State of Colorado that the
international problem involving the use of the water of the
Colorado Riyer should be oomposed and settled at the earliest
practicable date.

2. On the basis of ultimate development of the Colorado
River Basin'within the United States, all of the water of the
Colorado River oan be put to benefioial use within the United
States, and any allocation of water to the Republio of Mexioo
will be based solely upon the prinoiples of oomity and equity.
Any adjustment with the Republio of Mexioo should include a waiver
on the part of that country of any further or different demands
whioh that country may now or in the future, assert to the waters
of the Colorado River.

3.
Colorado

(a) Any treaty shall
River Compact;

reoognize the validity of the

(b) If, as a matter of international oomityand equity,
the United States should reoognize in Mexioo any use of water
of the Colorado River, such water shall be supplied first from
the waters whioh are surplus over and above the aggregate quan-
tities speoified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Artiole III of the
Colorado River Compaot;

(0) In any allocation of water made between the United
States and the Republio of Mexioo, the treaty of allooation should
be made in view of and to comport with all other terms of the
Colorado River Compact.

4. Assuming that any treaty between the United States and
Mexioo involves composing differenoes between the two oountries
on the Colorado River and on the Rio Grande, any adjustment be-
tween the two oountries should be subjeot to two oonditions,
naJ;lely,

(a) That the Colorado River and the Rio Grande shall eaoh
be oonsidered separately and. independently of the other;