The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado Klver system ; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to promote interstate comity... The Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce - Page 23by United States. Dept. of Commerce - 1921Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1913 - 1000 pages
...for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System ; to establish the relative importance of different...controversies; and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industral development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on irriagation and reclamation - 1925 - 968 pages
...for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River system: to establish the relative importance of different...agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado Kiver Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of life and property from floods. To these... | |
| United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on irrigation and reclamation - 1926 - 118 pages
...equitable division and apportionment of the unappropriated and flood waters of the Pecos River system; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of...controversies and to secure the expeditious agricultural development of the Pecos River Basin by the conservation and economical destribution of the waters... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - Flood control - 1927 - 916 pages
...the equitable apportionment of the cost of control of said river and the use of the waters thereof ; to establish the relative importance of different...beneficial uses of water ; to promote interstate comity, friendly relations and mutual and common developments; to remove causes of present and future controversies,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - 1928 - 540 pages
...PURPOSES OF THE COMPACT The great and vital purposes of the compact, as set forth in its preamble, are " to promote interstate comity ; to remove causes of present and future controversies," and through accomplishment of these altogether worthy and commendable purposes to bring to achievement... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - 1928 - 548 pages
...the place of interminable lawsuits. Hence the necessity for a treaty, in the words of the compact, " to promote interstate comity — to remove causes of present and future controversies." Hence the necessity for a treaty which will permit development within the lifetime of those now living,... | |
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