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<br />,. <br /> <br />,,' <br />.> <br /> <br />autarities ha,d studied the quality problem and they concluded that under the <br /> <br />terms of the treaty Mexico. would receiveu5a.bl~ water. This paragraph which <br /> <br />Mr. Ely daes not quote reads: <br /> <br />"(b) The salinity of the return waters which may came <br />in the Colorado. River depends on the use that Arizona makes <br />of the waters af the Calarado River that belang to it. If it <br />canstructs an irrigation project with a value of about $1,000,000,000 <br />to carry the water to. the center of Arizana, then a certain volume <br />af return water with a high percentage of salinity might reach <br />the bed af the Gila River, but even this valume cauld not reach <br />the Colorado. River as it would be absarbed, as happens at present, <br />by the great dry bed af the Gila River which far same years has <br />nat brought a drop of water to. the Calorado River. If Arizana <br />emplays these waters to irrigate its sauthwest corner, which <br />wauld cost it at least the tenth part ($70,000,000), then the <br />return waters wauld be af good quality. Whatever the praject <br />that it selected, it wauld nat be tatally developed far many years, <br />probably at the end af the present century. The mast pessimistic <br />technical calculations shaw that even cansidering that Arizana <br />would employ its water in its central region and that the return <br />water with a high percentage of salinity wauld reach the Colorado. <br />River withaut being last in the b8d af the Gila River, these returns <br />mixed with the rest af the assignment to. our cauntry af waters <br />with very small percentage of salinity wauld give a mixture that <br />aur country wauld prabably accept in accordance with what was <br />said abave relative to. its undeniable right to. receive waters <br />of gaad quality." (Cang. Rec. Val. 91, part 13, p. A4749). <br /> <br />----When yauconsider the whole debate and particularly the arguments <br /> <br />of the proponents af the treaty before the Senate in the Hearings and an the <br /> <br />floar during debate, the difference between the United States and the Mexican <br /> <br />pasitians is nat appasite poles as same would claim. Mexico. claimed that <br /> <br />she was to. receive usable water. Water was to. be fit for irrigatian. The <br /> <br />Mexicans believed that this water would be usable "von after the United <br /> <br />States had used the same as it came down the river. <br /> <br />B 53 <br />