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<br />-41- <br /> <br />ured Mexican tributaries, making it difficult for <br />Mexico to make available the run-off of 350,000 <br />acre-feet (431,721,000 cubic meters) annually, al- <br />lotted in subparagraph (c) of paragraph B of this <br />Article to the United States as the minimum con- <br />tribution from the aforesaid Mexican tributaries, <br />any deficiencies existing at the end of the aforesaid <br />five-year cycle shall be made up in the following <br />five-year cycle with water from the said measured <br />tributaries. <br /> <br />Whenever the conservation capacities assigned <br />to the United States in at least two of the major in- <br />ternational reservoirs, including the highest major <br />reservoir, are filled with waters belonging to the <br />United States, a cycle of five years shall be con- <br />sidered as terminated and all debits fully paid, <br />whereupon a new five-year cycle shall commence. <br /> <br />ARTICLE 6 <br /> <br />The two Governments agree to construct joint- <br />ly, through their respective Sections of the Com- <br />mission, the following works in the main channel of <br />the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo): <br /> <br />1. The dams required for the conservation, stor. <br />age and regulation of the greatest quantity of the <br />annual flow of the river in a way to ensure the con- <br />tinuance of existing uses and the development of the <br />greatest number of feasible projects, within the <br />limits imposed by the water allotments specified. <br /> <br />II. The dams and other joint works required for <br />the diversion of the flow of the Rio Grande (Rio <br />Bravo). <br /> <br />One of the storage dams shall be constructed <br />in the section between Santa Helena Canyon and the <br />