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<br />to get back to the Colorado River. They are <br />pumping this water into the Colorado River at <br />this point, it goes on down the river to Morelos <br />Dam, (in green here), which is the major Mexican <br />point of diversion so that the Mexicans, if they <br />are going to use this water in the big body of <br />their irrigable area, must take this poor quality <br />water. There is a limit to the amount of this <br />poor quality water. It's estimated, in the <br />Bureau report with wh~ch we agree, that the <br />total amount of (highly saline) water under the <br />Wellton-Mohawk Project area amounts to around <br />2~ million acre-feet. In order to maintain a <br />proper level, to maintain irrigation practices, <br />they must pump about 300 cubic feet per second <br />continuously in order to get the water level <br />down to where they have a project. <br /> <br />Historically, and by historically I only <br />mean in the last few years, we find this condi- <br />tion existing in the lower reaches of the river. <br />Under the provisions of the 1944 Treaty, Mexico <br />is permitted to reduce its demands for water <br />during the winter months, October, November, <br />December, January and February, to 900 cubic <br />feet per second and they have done this every <br />year since the Treaty was negotiated. On <br />October 1st they cut their demand to 900 cubic <br />feet per second. To date the United States has <br />not been able to control the river sufficiently <br />to deliver only 900 cubic feet per second in the <br />limitrophe section. <br /> <br />The limi trophe section is that section of <br />the border or boundary between the United States <br />and l'1exico which is formed by the river. So we <br />can get credit under the Treaty for anything <br />that reaches the river from this point in the <br />boundary directly opposite Yuma all the way down <br />the river and back to San Luis. Now by adminis- <br />trative agreement between the two International <br />Commissioners, the limitrophe section has been <br />extended back to San Luis because drainage canals <br />from these projects on the mesa cross the bound- <br />ary, and l'1exico uses them in their mesa irrigation <br />down in here. It would be senseless for the <br />United states to kick these drainage canals into <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />