WSPC00460

• File Number: 8044
• Description: Section D General Studies - Compacts-General Writings
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 5/21/1942
• Title: Department of State - International Boundary Commission - US and Mexico - US Section - Memorandum on Precedents as to Equitable Distribution of International Waters
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

001393

"In case, however, of extraordinary drought
or serious accident to the irrigation system in the
United States, the amount delivered to the Mexican
Canal shall be diminished in the same proportion
as the water delivered to lands under said irriga-
tion system in the United States.

ARTICLE III

"The said delivery shall be made without cost
to Mexico, and the United States agrees to pay the
whole cost of storing the said quantity of water
to be delivered to Mexico, of conveying the same
to the international line, of measuring the said
water, and of delivering it in the river bed above
the head of the Mexioan Canal. It is understood
that the United State~ assumes no obligation bew
yond the delivering of the water in the bed ,of the
river above the head of the Mexioan Canal.

ART ICLE rv

"The delivery of water as herein provided is
not to be oonstrued as a recognition by the United
States of any olaim on the part of Mexioo to the
said waters; and it is agreed that in oonsidera~
tion of suoh delivery of water, Mexioo waives any
and all claims to the waters of the Rio Grande
for any purpose whatever between the head of the
present Mexioan Canal and Fort Quitman, Texas,
and also deolares fully settled and disposed of,
and hereby waives, all olaims heretofore asserted
or existing, Or that may hereafter arise, or be
asserted, against the United States on acoount of
any damages alleged to heve been sustained by the
owners of land in Mexico, by reason of the diver-
sion by citizens of the United States of waters
of the Rio Grande.

ARTICLE V

"The United States, in entering into this treaty,
does not thereby concede, expressly or by implioa-
tion, any legal basis for any olaims heretofore as-
serted or Which may be hereafter asserted by reason
of any losses inourred by the owners of land in
Mexioo due or alleged to be due to the diversion
of the waters of the Rio Grande within the United
States; nor does the United States in any way con-
oede the establishment of any general prinoiple or
precedent by the conoluding of this treaty. The

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