How much water is allocated to Nevada and Arizona?
The Boulder Canyon Project Act authorizes Arizona, California, and Nevada to enter into an agreement which shall provide that Nevada gets 300,000 acre-feet and Arizona 2,800,000 acre-feet for exclusive beneficial consumptive use; also, that Arizona may annually use one-half of the surplus water unapportioned by the compact, and, in addition, shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the State. Such an agreement has not yet been made. What agreement as to division of water has been made by the various California interests? (1) Three million eight hundred and fifty thousand acre-feet of water per annum for beneficial consumptive use for irrigation, as follows: First, to Palo Verde Irrigation District, 104,500 acres; second, to Yuma Reclamation project, 25,000 acres in California; remainder to lands in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys served from the All-American Canal and to 16,000 acres on the Lower Palo Verde Mesa; (2) the next 5
