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<br />. <br /> <br />get poor water, you just put a firebrand into. the picture. I am <br />not very clear abaut what the negatiators said definitely on the <br />subject or whether ar nat there was a discus sian amongst them. <br />We must certainly presume that the Mexican negotiatars are just <br />as smart as our own. They do. nat want brine when they need <br />water. <br />"Mr, WILSON. I am assuming, Senator, that they negotiated <br />on both sides. <br />"Senator WILEY. When we talk about water up my way we <br />mean water that is drinkable and usable; we do. nat mean the brine <br />af the sea. I think there is a point here that we must cansider, <br />when we talk about putting into ape ration the goad neighbor policy <br />that we have heard so much about, nat to slip ane aver and let <br />the neighbar find out afterward that we slipped it over. <br />"The CHAIRMAN. Yau think the neighbor knows as much <br />abaut what he is daing as we do? <br />"Senator WILEY. Yes; and therefare, I believe they meant <br />what we wauld have meant--good. clean, usable water." <br /> <br />7. At page 177 4 of the Hearing s. Senator Downey argues that the <br /> <br />maximum salinity from Lake Mead will be 1,000 parts per million but that the <br /> <br />return fl'ow fram California and Arizona for use in Mexico. will be as high as <br /> <br />3,000 to. 4,000 parts per million and thus MexiCO under the treaty will get <br /> <br />tatally unusable water while under the Califarnia plan Mexico. would get <br /> <br />Z 50.,_0.0.0_acr.e::fe.et .0LLa_k_e_Me.a.d_ ""at_e.-plLLS_""h?Jever retUl:n_flaw_she_wanted_____ _.. <br /> <br />to. use with no obligatian on the United States beyond the 7 50,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />8 . Beginning an page 1791 there appears in the record a dacument <br /> <br />fram the Calorada River Board of California which deals with California's <br /> <br />suggestian far the treaty and under the title "Quality" sets farth the Califarnia <br /> <br />positian as fallaws: <br /> <br />"That them be an express declaration that the quality of the <br />waters to be delivered to. Mexico. is not guaranteed but that Mexico <br />agrees to accept, regardless af quality, as part af the waters <br />allotted to her under the treaty, any waters reaching the inter- <br />national boundury. <br /> <br />B 29 <br />