WSP03626

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/30/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #7
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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it is recognized that it requires a general co-ordination and co-

operation of all the Western States to bring about the greater

development upon this river. The thought is that the Upper States

have no dis?osition to retard the earlier development below, pro-

viding they have assurances that after they have co-operated in

bringing about that development, they lull not be thereafter pen-

alized, as they have been on other rivers. In that respect, it

would be a protective clause for us. Unless sarno such protection

clause is adopted, we are put in a position of constant exposure

to attacks from below, whether they are justified or not. Most

of those inter-state attacks have been prompted by political mo-

tives and very unfortunate in their effects upon the States in-

volved.

MR. HOOVER: I ,was going to ask this. We have the declaration

of the Supreme Court requiring an equitable division of the \oIater.

This is a distinct limitation of states rights. If we were to find

that there was insufficient water in the Colorado River with which

to meet the uses of the State of Colorado and all the States below,

would not Colorado be limited under the decision ,of the Supreme

Court?

MR. CARPENTER: If it ,were true that Colorado did in fact in-

tend to utilize and consume that Hater 'lho11y lIithin her borders,

then the Court might say: You must yield some for the lOHer

country. Furthermore, even if by her action she were to consume

more than a reasonable portion of her l-later supply of that river

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