BOARD02551

• Board Meeting Date: 8/11/1965
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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planned on. It means that wi thin the fore-
seeable futQre, the Upper Basin, if it is to
receive additional water supplies, will have
to depend upon importations into the Colorado
River system from some other source. Through
the principle of exchange, we would reduce
our deliveries at Lee Ferry by such amounts
as we could replace downstream.

In the final analysis all seven states
of the Colorado River Basin are faced with
the same immediate and pressing problem.
under no stretch of the imagination is there
sufficient water to satisfy the needs of all
of the states past the last decade of this
century. }~ have a common problem. It
appears that it is rather futile to argue over
the little undeveloped water there is now
presently remaining in the Colorado River
Basin. We must, together, look toward im-
portations from outside sources.

I~. Goslin, or ~tr. Tipton, at this
point, do you have anything you would like
to say?"

I4R. GOSLIN:

"I~. Sparks, since I~. Tipton is here
why not ask him to review the report with
respect to water supplies?"

NR. SPARKS:

"Tip, could you do that?"

MR. TIPTON":

"I don't think there can be much added
to what r-tr. Sparks has told you. At the time
the compact was negotiated, back in '21 and
'22, it appeared that there would be consid-
erable surplus over and above the amounts
allocated by the compact commission, 7~
million to each Basin, one million more to the
Lower Basin, and provisions for a Mexican Water
Treaty, if there was ever a treaty negotiated.

Now this is not the only river that has
been involved in the drought period begin-
ning in 1930; not the only interstate agree-
ment that has been involved. The same thing

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