WSPC00070

• File Number: 8200.700
• Description: Colorado River-Colorado River Basin-Colorado River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Date: 7/1/1976
• Author: Felix Sparks
• Title: Colorado River Documents and Major Events-Sparks Synopsis-July 1976-Synopsis of Major Documents and Events Relating to the Colorado River
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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resist any Japanese invasion from that source. Mexico had a priee
for such accommodation. The water treaty of 1944 was a part of
that price. Ironically, World War II was over within a few months
after the United States Senate ratified the treaty.

4. Upper Colorado River Basin COll1l)act

It should be noted again that the Colorado River Compact of
1922 did not apportion water to the respective states, but only to
the upper and lower basins of the Colorado River. Twenty-six
years after the signing of the Colorado River Compact, the states
of the Upper COlorado River Basin, through their various cClllllllis-
sioners, signed the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, on October 11, 1948. This compact was subsequently
ratified by the legislatures of all five Upper Colorado River Basin
states, including Arizona (which in 1944 had at long last ratified
the Colorado River Compact). Se:e of the key provisions of the
Upper Basin Compact are as follows:

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Article III

(a) Subject to the provisions and limitations contained
in the Colorado River Compact and in this Compact, there is
hereby apportioned from the Upper Colorado River System in
perpetuity to the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming, respectively, the consumptive use of water
as follows:

(1) To the State of Arizona the consumptive use of
50,000 acre-feet of water per annum.

(2) To the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and
WYoming, respectively, the consumptive use per
annum of the quantities resulting from the applica-
tion of the following percentages to the total
quantity of consumptive use per annum apportioned
in perpetuity to and available for use each year
by Upper Basin under the Colorado River Compact and
remaining after the deduction of the use, not to
exceed 50,000 acre-feet per annum, made in the
State of Arizona.

State of Colorado
State of New Nexico
State of Utah
State of Hyoming

51. 75 per cent,
11.25 per cent,
23.00 per cent,
14.00 per cent

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