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<br />001810 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Court did not decide that question, however, because the <br /> <br /> <br />United states was held to be an indispensable party which had <br /> <br />not waived its sovereign immunity. <br />Meanwhile, before the last of Arizona's suits had <br />been decided, Hoover Dam had been constructed and construction <br /> <br />of the Colorado River Aqueduct and the All-American Canal had <br />been started. In 1944, three events occurred. (1) The United <br />States negotiated a treaty with Mexico guaranteeing the delivery <br />to Mexico of 1,500,000 acre-feet per annum "from any and all <br />sources."Y (2) Arizona, anticipating the effects of agri- <br />cultural expansion from ground water supplies, passed companion <br />statutes (a) purporting to ratify the Colorado River Compact, <br />and (b) approving a contract with the United States calling for <br />the delivery to Arizona of a maximum of 2,800,000 acre-feet of <br />Colorado River system water. (3) Nevada wrote its second <br />contract (the first was for lOO,OOO acre-feet in 1942) with the <br />Secretary of the Interior, calling for a total of 300,000 acre- <br />feet of water to be used in Nevada. This brought the total of <br /> <br />the quantities stated in Hoover Dam water delivery contracts <br /> <br /> <br />to 8,462,000 acre-feet per annum. <br /> <br /> <br />The Arizona contract of 1944 was the primary basis of <br /> <br />Arizona's claim when Arizona sued California in 1952. Although <br /> <br /> <br />the contract itself expressly left undetermined the controversies <br /> <br />Y Treaty Series 994, 59 stat. l2l9 (l945). <br /> <br />22. <br />