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Article VIII <br />Present perfected rights to the beneficial use of waters of the Colorado River System are unimpaired by this <br />compact. Whenever storage capacity of 5,000,000 acre feet shall have been provided on the main Colorado River <br />within or for the benefit of the Lower Basin, then claims of such rights, if any, by appropriators or users of waters in <br />the Lower Basin, against appropriators or users of water in the Upper Basin shall attach to and be satisfied from water <br />that may be stored not in conflict with Article III. <br />All other rights to beneficial use of waters of the Colorado River System shall be satisfied solely from the water <br />apportioned to that Basin in which they are situate. <br />Article IX <br />Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit or prevent any State from instituting or maintaining any action <br />or proceeding, legal or equitable, for the protection of any right under this compact or the enforcement of any of its <br />provisions. <br />Article X <br />This compact may be terminated at any time by the unanimous agreement of the signatory States. In the event of <br />such termination all rights established under it shall continue unimpaired. <br />Article XI <br />This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of <br />the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States. Notice of approval by the Legislatures shall be given by <br />the Governor of each signatory State to the Governors of the other signatory States and to the President of the United <br />States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of <br />approval by the Congress of the United States. <br />In Witness Whereof, The Commissioners have signed this compact in a single original, which shall be deposited in <br />the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America and of which a duly certified copy shall be <br />forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States. <br />Done at the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, this Twenty-fourth day of November, A.D. One Thousand Nine <br />Hundred and Twenty -Two. <br />W. S. Norviel, <br />W. F. McClure, <br />Delph E. Carpenter, <br />J. G. Scrugham, <br />Stephen B. Davis, Jr <br />R. E. Caldwell, <br />Frank E. Emerson. <br />Approved: <br />Herbert Hoover. <br />Source: L. 23: p. 684, § 1. Not in CSA. CRS 53: § 148-2-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 149-2-1. <br />ANNOTATION <br />Am. Jur.2d. See 78 Am. Jur.2d, Waters, §§ 71, 72, 394, 395. <br />C.J.S. See 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 8, 31; 93 C.J.S., Waters, §§ 9-11. <br />Law reviews. For article, "Water for Oil Shale Development', see 43 Den. L.J. 72 (1966). For comment, "Bryant v. Yellen: <br />Perfected Rights Acquire New Status Under a Belated Clarification of Arizona v. California", see 58 Den. L.J. 847 (1981). For <br />article, "The Law of Equitable Apportionment Revisited, Updated and Restated", see 56 U. Colo. L. Rev. 381 (1985). For article, <br />