Colorado River Compact (Utah Code: Title 73 Water and Irrigation; Chapter 12a)

This chapter of the Utah Code adopts the Colorado River Compact entered into among the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. It provides that the major purposes of this compact are to provide 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 interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; and to secure the expeditious 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.