WSP01132

• File Number: 8278.400
• Description: Title I - Mexican Treaty
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/15/1944
• Author: Six States Committee
• Title: The Pending Mexican Treaty - A Sound Solution of a Difficult Problem
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Appendix

TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND MEXICO, RELATING TO WATERS
OF THE COLORADO AND TI-
JUANA RIVERS AND OF
THE RIO GRANDE

The Government of the United States of Amer-
ica and the Government of the United Mexican
States: animated by the sincere spirit of cordiality
and friendly cooperation which happily governs the
relations between them; taking into account the
fact that Articles VI and VII of the Treaty of Peace,
Friendship and Limits between the United States
of America and the United Mexican States signed
at Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848, and
Article IV of the boundary treaty between the two
countries signed at the City of Mexico December
30, 1853, regulate the use of the waters of the Rio
Grande (Rio Bravo) and the Colorado River for
purposes of navigation only; considering that the
utilization of these waters for other purposes is
desirable in the interest of both countries, and desir-
ing, moreover, to fix and delimit the rights of the
two countries with respect to the waters of the Colo-
rado and Tijuana Rivers, and of the Rio Grande
(Rio Bravo) from Fort Quitman, Texas, United
States of America, to the Gulf of Mexico, in order
to obtain the most complete and satisfactory utiliza-
tion thereof, have resolved to conclude a treaty and
for this purpose have named as their plenipoten-
tiaries :

The President of the United States of America: