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<br />O{)'lMI2 <br />~. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />resist any Japanese invasion from that source. ~~xico had a price <br />for such accommodation. The water treaty of 1944 was a part of <br />that price. Ironically, World War II was over within a few months <br />after the United States Senate ratified the treaty. <br /> <br />4. Upper Colorado River Basin Compact <br /> <br />It should be noted again that the Colorado River Compact of <br />1922 did not apportion water to the respective states, but only to <br />the upper and lower basins of the Colorado River. Twenty-six <br />years after the signing of the Colorado River Compact, the states <br />of the Upper Colorado River Basin, through their various commis- <br />sioners, signed the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact at Santa Fe, <br />New Mexico, on October 11, 1948. This compact was subsequently <br />ratified by the legislatures of all five Upper Colorado River Basin <br />states, including Arizona (which in lS44 had at long last ratified <br />the Colorado River Compact). SC1r.e of the key provisions of the <br />Upper Basin Compact are as follows: <br /> <br />. . .. . .. <br /> <br />Article III <br /> <br />(a) Subject to the provisions and limitations contained <br />in the Colorado River Compact and in this Compact, there is <br />hereby apportioned from the Upper Colorado River System in <br />perpetuity to the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, <br />Utah and WYoming, respectively, the consumptive use of water <br />as follows: <br /> <br />(1) <br /> <br />To the State of Arizona the consumptive use of <br />50,000 acre-feet of water per annum. <br /> <br />To the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and <br />WYoming, respectively, the consumptive use per <br />annum of the quantities resulting from the applica- <br />tion of the fOllowing percentages to the total <br />quantity of consumptive use per annum apportioned <br />in perpetuity to and available for use each year <br />by Upper Basin under the Colorado River Compact and <br />remaining after the deduction of the use, not to <br />exceed 50,000 acre-feet per annum, made in the <br />State of Arizona. <br /> <br />(2) <br /> <br />State of Colorado <br />State of New Mexico <br />State of Utah <br />State of rTyoming <br /> <br />51. 75 per cent, <br />11.25 per cent, <br />23.00 per cent, <br />14.00 per cent <br /> <br />.. .. .. .. .. .. .. <br /> <br />-9- <br />