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Called "basin" states, the signatories to this Compact were California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and, later in 1944, Arizona.

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The Imperial Irrigation District and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California hold the primary claims to the Colorado River, and western water law gives priority to these first users. In the renegotiation scheduled for 2022 -- the deadlines have been missed -- "these districts say they're willing to use less water or pay others to do so," perhaps because they risk losing their senior rights.<ref>https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/14/water-pacts-redo-raises-suspense/</ref>

The Compact is based on an overestimate, probably deliberate, of 16.4 million [[acre-foot|acre-feet]] of water supposedly made available annually by the Colorado River.<ref name="LAT">https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-09-21/california-water-usage-hoover-dam-lake-mead</ref> In fact, it rarely supplied that much, and since 1991 its average has been only 13.5 million acre-feet, and declining from that.

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