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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and in the maximum use of these structures for the
purpose of obtaining the most beneficial, regular
and constant use of the waters belonging to them.
Accordingly, within the year following the placing
in operation of the first of the major international
storage dams which is constructed, the Commission
shall submit to each Government for its approval,
regulations for the storage, conveyance and delivery
of the waters of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from
Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico. Such
regulations may be modified, amended or supple-
mented when necessary by the Commission, subject
to the approval of the two Governments. The fol-
lowing general rules shall severally govern until
modified or amended by agreement of the Commis-
.ion, with the approval of the two Governments:

(a) Storage in all major international reser-
voirs above the lowest shall be maintained at the
maximum possible water level, consistent with flood
control, irrigation use and power requirements.

(b) Inflows to each reservoir shall be credited
to each country in accordance with the ownership
of such inflows.

(c) In any reservoir the ownership of water
belonging to the country whose conservation capac-
ity therein is filled, and in excess of that needed to
keep it filled, shall pass to the other country to the
extent that such country may have unfilled conser-
vation capacity, except that one country may at its
option temporarily use the conservation capacity
of the other country not currently being used in any
of the upper reservoirs; provided that in the event
of flood discharge or spill occurring while one coun-
try is using the conservation capacity of the other,
all of such flood discharge or spill shall be charged to