---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 617s"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "617s"
heading: "Recognition of rights of Mexico to Colorado River waters"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/617s"
units:
  - "Chapter 12A — Boulder Canyon Project"
  - "Subchapter I — Boulder Canyon Project Act"
---

# §617s. Recognition of rights of Mexico to Colorado River waters


Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as a denial or recognition of any rights, if any, in Mexico to the use of the waters of the Colorado River system.


## Source credit

(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 20, 45 Stat. 1066.)