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<br />" <br /> <br />Reclamation. Thus, the real cost of the treaty to. us will be <br />approximately 500,000 acre-feet af water; that is to. say, <br />500,000 acre-feet of water is the amount of water which we <br />allacate to. Mexico, and which in the far-distant future we <br />in the United States might be able to. use. <br />"There has been criticism af the salinity ai the return <br />flaw. The critics denaunce the treaty as profligate; and, with- <br />aut the slightest change of pace, they denaunce the treaty as <br />not giving Mexico enough gaod water. Let me say that the return <br />flow will be saline, but it will be anly slightly more saline than <br />it was when last used in the United States. The salinity af the <br />return flow which Mexico has agreed to. take under the treaty is <br />not due to the treaty. It is due to the legitimate use and reuse <br />af the water in the United States and to the geagraphical positian <br />af the last users an the stream. Mexico cannot expect better <br />water and daes not expect better water than the dawnstream <br />users in the United States will have. <br />"The 500,000 acre-feet af water which will go. to. Mexico <br />thraugh the All-American Canal to supplement the return flaw <br />will also. be increasingly saline, far it will reflect the intense <br />future use and reuse af the water in the upper basin. But, again, <br />that will nat be the !ault of the treaty. The lawer basin States <br />and Mexico. will have to take the water as it cames to them. <br />The upper basin States give no guaranty as to salinity to. the <br />lower basin States, and neither the upper basin nor the lawer <br />basin can give a guaranty af salinity to. Mexico.. <br />"Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. President, will the Senatar yield? <br />"Mr. MILLIKIN. I yield. <br />"MR. DOWNEY. I dis like to. continue to. interrupt the <br />_Senator,,-buLbe. is_ ver.y_caudeaus ,and...kind...ta_me, _and_I_hape__ _ _ ~ <br />he will bear with me again. <br />"The distinguished Senatar stated that the water, as it <br />comes aut af Boulder Dam and as used by the users in the United <br />States, will not be much better water than the water after it is <br />used there and as it goes dawn to Califarnia. <br />"Mr. MILLIKIN. I did not say that. <br />"Mr. DOWNEY. Will the distinguished Senatar repeat whet <br />he did say when he said it wauld nat be very much mare saline? <br />"Mr. MILLIKIN. I said in effect that the return flow will be <br />slightly more saline than the water was when was when last used <br />in the United States. I said that as to. the 500,000 acre-feet af <br />water that will come through the All-American Canal, it will become <br />increasingly saline because it will be subjected to constantly <br />increasing use and reuse in the upper basin. <br /> <br />B 36 <br />