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I I MR. CORNELIUS: MR. TIPTON: "':t'.J:;r:;J This million acre-feet never did constitute a burden on the upper Basin. By no stretch of the imagination did that constitute a burden and couldn't be made to do so. It was water that was down there that they could use if it was there. It is there on the tri- butaries. The Supreme Court chose to ignore the tributaries. She dealt only with the main stem of the Colorado River. We were not parties to the suit and we are not bound by the fact the supreme Court did ignore the tributaries in the Lower Basin." "In your report you speak of a possi- bility of salvaging some 220,000 acre-feet down at Yuma. This would accrue only to the credit of Arizona. Would it deduct from the l~ million acre-feet that Mexico is entitled to?U "I'm glad you brought that poi,nt up, Quincy. The Mexican Treaty burden needs explanation because there is some misunder- standing about it. There are knowledgeable people who think that it's 750,000 ~cre- feet on each Basin. That's not true. Right at this moment out of the l~ million acre- feet that the treaty allocated to Mexico, there's 900,000 acre-feet at least that is being taken care of by return flow and other flows, such as desilting water, coming to the river below Imperial Dam. Flows that are not usable in the United states unless they are pumped and there would be no point in pumping them to, say the All American Canal, because that doesn't relieve the situation. So the burden on the two Basins to make up any deficiencies in the Mexican Treaty delivery might be only a total of 500,000 acre-feet, 600,000 acre-feet at the most. Now this 900,000 that is coming to the river right now is water that won't be shut off; It comes from Arizona projects that will not be effected. We'll say they have a