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<br />,,' <br /> <br />0, <br /> <br />~s bbligeted to take water from theColarado River from aur return <br />flaw, hawever saline it may be, in my opinia'n she will have a <br />treaty which will be dangeraus and af very doubtful value to. her. <br />The State Department anticipates that there will be aver a millian <br />acre-feet af return flaw from the Colarado, mast af which, I <br />believe, will be highly saline. In arriving at that figure it did <br />not count upon the 500,000 or 1,000,000 acre-feet af water which <br />might at same time be returned by California to the Calarado River. <br />It might very well be, according to the interpretatian given by <br />aur State Department, that under this treaty all the water obtained <br />by Mexico might be from return flaw, and all af it might be sa <br />saline as to be unusable. If hereafter it shauld be determined <br />that Mexico. does nat have to. take water af poar quality, then <br />we might be obligated to. add 300,000 ar 400,000 acre-feet af <br />water to. the 1,500,000 acre- feet of water, and to bring that <br />additional water dawn to the baundary from Lake Mead, In that <br />event, a mast dangerous condition wauld exist. I think the <br />'situation is such that the danger to the upper basin States is <br />much greater than the danger to. the lower basin States. It might <br />be that the lawer basin would provide a return flaw af 1,500,000 <br />acre-feet af water and would receive credit for it from the upper <br />basin States. In that event, we might immediately find that the <br />whole burden of furnishing 1,500,000 acre-feet of fresh water <br />might fall upon the upper basin States. All those States are <br />represented in the Senate by distingUlshed and able men; and, <br />of caurse, it is nat for me to fight thG battle for thase States, <br />inasmuch as the Senators who represent them are very much <br />better able to. do sa than I am." <br /> <br />-- ~ -- - - ---We-have-perhapso.set-forth-the-backgrouncLon-this_question_in_toa, much <br /> <br />detail. Hawever, we were prompted to follaw this path in order to have the <br /> <br />record before us as we attempt to. summarize the quality issue from the United <br /> <br />States' side af the ratIficatian af this treaty. The propanents af the treaty were <br /> <br />prompted by the fallowing: <br /> <br />(a) Mexico had an equity in the Calorada ri.ver, <br /> <br />(b) In arder to settle thi s questian af Mexico's rights, there <br />was a need far a treaty. The settlement wauld insure the <br />faundatian for futurG develapment af the Calarada Basin <br />in United States. <br /> <br />B 48 <br />