The border vidette., 1922-12-23
COLORADO RIVER COMPACT.

04 bdiS COAp6CO are IO for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River system, to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to promote inter state comity; to remove causes of present and future controver- sies, and to secure the expedi~ sious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River basin, the storage of its waters and the protection of life and property from floods.
 To these ends the Colorado River basin IS divided into two basins, and an apportionment of the use of part of the water of the Colorado River system is made to each of them with the provision that further equitable apportionment may be made.
 Article 2. As used in this com pact (a) the. term Colorado River system" means that DOT tion of the Colorado River and it's tributaries within the United States of America
 (b) The term Colorado River basin" means all of the drainage area of the Colorado River sys- tenn and all the territory within the United States of America to which the waters of the Colorado River system shall be beneficial ly applied.
 lc) The term Estates of the upper division" means the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
 (d) The term States of the lower division" means the states of Arizona, California and Ne vada.
 (e). The term Lee Ferry" means point in the main stream of the Colorado River one mile below the mouth of the Paria River.
 CD The term .'upper ~basin"= means those, parts of the states of Arizona, Colorado. New Mex ico, Utah and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River system above Lee Ferry and also parts of said located with. out the. drainage area of the Colorado River system which are now CT shall hereafter be beueficiaily- served by waters diverted from the system above Lee Ferry.
 (g) The term flower basin" means those parts. of the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico. and Utah within and from which waters natural. ly drain into the Colorado River. system below Lee Ferry and also all parts of said states locat. sd without the drainage area of the Colorado River system be- low Lee now and shall hereafter be beuefcially served by waters diverted from the system below Lee Ferry.
 (h) The term domestic use" shall include the use of the wat ar for household, stock, muni- cips;, mining, milling, industrial and other like purposes, but shall exclude the generation of electrical power.
 Article 3. (a) There is hereby from the Colorado River system in perpetuity to the upper basin and to the lower. baeip. respectively, the exclu sive beneficial consumptive use of 7,5OO,OOO acre feet of water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for the sup 1 ply of any rights which may | now exist.
 (b) h addition to the appor tioument in paragraph (al, the l lower basin hereby given the | right to increase it's beneficial | use of such waters 1 by ,OOO, GOO acre feet per anuum-
 (c) If, as a matter of interna tiousl comity, the United States of America shall hereafter re- coRuize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of tue Colorado River system, such waters shall be first from the waters which are surplus oyer and Q 0bove the aggregate of the quan titles specified in paragraphs (a) aud {b); and if such surplus shall prove insufficient for this pur- pose, then the burden of such shall be equally borne by the upper basin aud the low Br basin. and wherever neces