Chuck Bryant

That's right.

So as far as how this actually works, over a 10-year period, the upper basin has to deliver at least 75 million acre-feet of water to the lower basin, and they measure it there at Lee Ferry.

That's why the dividing point is there.

They actually measure this water.

And the upper basin can store whatever they have left over after they've delivered that to the lower basin and their portion to Mexico.

That's right.

And once those projects are done, like for all new projects, if you're in the lower basin, you got to start using your reserve or your allotment rather.

I imagine so.

Yeah.

What I couldn't find out is what did they do in the meantime?

Oh, okay.

It's not like they said.

That's my guess.

Yeah.

All right.

That's the one thing I couldn't quite find.

Yeah.

That listener who is really into the river projects, they're going to write in, I'm sure.

All right, so now I promised to talk about the law of the river.

That is the more complex set of laws and compacts and court decisions and contracts and all these guidelines and stuff that have been issued over the years.