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(l) Water Resources shall include all waters within the basin;

(m) Withdrawal shall mean any appropriation of water includ-
ing, but not limited to, a taking or removal of water from any source
within the basin regardless of its use or destination;

(n) Words importing the singular include and apply to several
persons, parties, or things; words importing the plural include the
singular;

(o) Writing shall include printing, typewriting, and every other
method and manner in which visual symbols may be permanently
produced or reproduced.

1.03. Findings.—The legislative bodies of the respective signa-
tories hereby find and declare:

(a)   The water resources of the basin are affected with local,
state, regional and national interests and their planning, conserva-
tion, utilization, development and management, under appropriate
arrangements for intergovernmental cooperation, are public pur-
poses of the respective signatories.

(b)  The water resources of the basin are subject to the sovereign
rights and responsibilities of the signatories, and the coordinated,
cooperative or joint exercise of such rights and responsibilities is
in the common interests of the people of the signatories.

(c)  The water resources of the basin are functionally interrelated,
and the uses of these resources are interdependent. A single govern-
mental agency is therefore essential for effective economical direction,
supervision and coordination of efforts and programs of federal,
state and local governments, of other public bodies and of private
enterprise, as they may relate to water resources.

(d)  The satisfaction of present and future demand requires in-
creasing economies and efficiencies in the use of water resources, and
these can be brought about only by comprehensive planning, pro-
gramming and management under the direction of a single govern-
mental agency.

1.04. Purposes.—The purposes of the signatories in enacting this
compact are:

(a)   To help meet the essential requirements of the present and
future population of the basin; to promote intergovernmental coop-
eration; to assure and protect desirable developments within the
basin; to encourage cooperative and coordinated water resources
planning and action by the signatories and their agencies; and to
establish a joint agency of the signatories to provide for the plan-
ning, conservation, utilization, development and management of the
water resources of the basin.

(b)   To preserve and utilize the functions, powers and duties of
existing offices and agencies of government to the greatest extent
consistent with the other purposes of this compact.

1.05. Powers of the United States.—(a) Nothing contained in
this compact shall impair, affect, or extend the constitutional author-
ity of the United States.

(b) The signatories hereby recognize the power and right of the
Congress at any time by any statute expressly enacted for that pur-