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<br />~ <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />first 7.5 million acre-feet. Deliveries in excess of that amount are <br /> <br />apportioned 46 percent to Arizona, 50 percent to California and 4 per- <br /> <br />cent to Nevada. <br /> <br />24. Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, Act of Apr. 0, 1949, ch. 48, 63 <br /> <br />Stat. 31. The states got the following shares of the Upper Basin <br /> <br />allocation: Colorado, 51.75%; Utah, 23%; Wyoming, 144; New Mexico, <br /> <br />11.25%; Arizona, 50,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />25. See Gilbert Bonem, M. Gisser, J. Myers & M. Resta, Water Demand and <br /> <br />Supply in the Albuquerque Urban Area 1975-2030 (Albuquerque, New Mexico: <br /> <br />University of New Mexico Bureau of Business & Economic Research, 1977), <br /> <br />pp. 24-27. <br /> <br />26. <br /> <br />~.~ lv-~~ ~ ~ <br />Appropriations for instream flow purposes axe-genor;ilv not allowed" ff <br />~ 0 ^ <br />number of states have permitted government agencies to appropriate <br />/\. <br />streamflows for the preservation of fish and wildlife habitat and for <br /> <br />"'-- <br /> <br />recreational needs. See Colorado Revised Statutes Sec. 37-92-103. See <br /> <br />generally A. Dan Tarlock, "The Recognition of Instream Flow Rights: <br /> <br />'New' Public Western Water Rights," Rocky Mountain Mineral Law <br /> <br />Institute, Vol. 25 (1979), p. 24-1. <br /> <br />27. Arizona v. California, 376, U.S. 340, 347-50 (1964). <br /> <br />28. National Water Commission, Water Policies for the Future--Final Report <br /> <br />to the President and to the Congress of the United States (Washington, <br /> <br />D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973), pp. 48U-81. <br /> <br />- 30 - <br />