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<br />, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />Senatar Downey's reply to this an page 3309 is that no Internatiarial <br /> <br />Court af Arbitratian will ever force Mexico to take water she cannat u~~. Again <br /> <br />Senatar Dawney takes the pasitian if the return water is unusable, the United <br /> <br />States will have to furnish water of same quality and standard as now in Lake <br /> <br />Mead. <br /> <br />On page 3310 Senatar McFarland went over again the fact that 'whether <br /> <br />water is useful' is relative. He agrees that if the salt cantent is high, there is <br /> <br />a need for mare water to. wash out the salt. In the treaty, hawever, Article 10 (b) <br /> <br />sets a ceiling an Mexico.' s quantity 'far any purpose'. At this point Senatar <br /> <br />McFarland reviewed the Engineers' testimany on the questian af return flow. <br /> <br />Some.of the water will have a rather high salt content, hawever, there will be <br /> <br />sufficient gaod water to. dilute this so that Mexico will get usable water. <br /> <br />A significant paint in the debate accurred when Senator Wiley took <br /> <br />the flaor as a propanent of the treaty. Thraughaut the "Hearings", Senator <br /> <br />Wiley seemed to. have been uncammitted an the treaty. Senatar Wiley dis- <br /> <br />__ __c:.\!!;"s_eg..!h.e_i..s s u~ow_\!n_d_eLC911S,is:l!?~ati.a,.!LE.LQ..a,g_e_:L3l4...i!s fa llow s: <br /> <br />"(f) The main issue ar difference between the contention of <br />the Gavernment and Califarnia centered around the amount af <br />water to be guaranteed to Mexico.. <br />"California was ready to. guarantee 750,000 acre-feet af pure <br />water ar usable water but nat 1,500,000 acre-feet. Califarnia <br />cantended also. that the language in the treaty meant that 1,500,000 <br />acre-feet af the water af the Colarada River might well mean <br />guaranteed usable water and that it might be neces sary, because <br />of the saline cantent of water 30 or 40 years fram now, to contribute <br />a lot more water to make it usable. The cantentian af the State <br />Department is that the treaty speaks far itself and that whatever <br />the candition of the water of the Colorado, due to. the use af the same <br />in the upper stretches, Mexico. wauld have to accept the water in <br />the candition it is in. <br /> <br />B 45 <br />