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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agree to give preferential attention to the solution
of all border sanitation problems.

II-RIO GRA~<DE (RIO BRAVO)

ARTICLE 4

The waters of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) be-
tween Fort Quitman, Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico
are hereby allotted to the countries in the following
manner:

A. To Mexico:

(a) All of the waters reaching the main channel
of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from the San Juan
and Alamo Rivers, including the return flow from
the lands irrigated from the latter two rivers.

(b) One-half of the flow in the main channel of
the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) below the lowest major
international storage dam, so far as said flow is not
specifically allotted under this Treaty to either of
the two countries.

(c) Two-thirds of the flow reaching tl1e main
channel of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from the
Conch os, San Diego, Sail Rodrigo, Escondido. and
Salado Rivers and the Las Vacas Arroyo, subject to
the provisions of subparagraph (c) of paragraph B
of this Article. .

(d) One-half of all other flows not otherWise
allotted by this Article occurring in the main chan-
nel of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), including the
contributions from all the unmeasured tributaries,
which are those not named in this Article, between
Fort Quitman and the lowest major international
storage dam.

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