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<br />. <br /> <br />1. It divides the Colorado River Basin into an Upper Basin <br /> <br /> <br />and a Lower Basin. The dividing point is at Lee Ferry which <br /> <br /> <br />is on the river approximately 30 river miles below the Utah- <br /> <br /> <br />Arizona boundary line and 1 mile below the mouth of the Paria <br /> <br /> <br />River. Colorado and Wyoming are entirely within the Upper <br /> <br /> <br />Basin. California and Nevada are entirely within the Lower <br /> <br /> <br />Basin. Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico include territory within <br /> <br /> <br />each of the two Basins. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />2. It makes no apportionment of water among the seven states <br /> <br /> <br />of the Colorado River Basin, but it divides the beneficial <br /> <br /> <br />consumptive use of water between the Upper and Lower Basins. <br /> <br /> <br />The apportionment, Article III, reads, in part, as follows: <br /> <br /> <br />"(a) There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River <br /> <br /> <br />system in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower <br /> <br /> <br />Basin, respectively, the exclusive beneficial consumptive <br /> <br /> <br />use of 7,500,000 acre-feet of water per annum, which shall <br /> <br /> <br />include all water necessary for the supply of any rights <br /> <br /> <br />which may now exist. <br /> <br />"(b) In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a), <br /> <br /> <br />the lower basin is hereby given the right to increase its <br /> <br /> <br />beneficial consumptive use of such waters by 1,000,000 <br /> <br /> <br />acre-feet per annum. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />2 <br />