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FAVOR AND ASSISTANCE TO OTHER USERS OF THE WATER OF SAID BASIN, AND THAT THE TAKING BY AN~ O~HER USERS OF WATER WHICH BY REASON OF SUCH PROGRAM OF CURTAILMENT AND CONSERVATION SAID CITY HAS NOT TAKEN AND USED, HAS ~ PERMISSIVE AND NOT BECAUSE OF ANT RIGHT OF SUCH OTHER USERS TO IEMA~D OR TA~. ANY PART OF THE WATERS SO TEMPORARILY MADE AVAILABLE. STH - THAT IN UNDERTAKING THIS PRO(~RAM OF ~ATT~I~I~T AND CONSERVATION TEE CITY OF SANTA ANA DID NOT INTEND, AND ~ NEVER INTENDED,. AND DOES NOT NOW IR-TEND, IN ANT MANNER TO ABANDON, RELINQUIS~, OR ADVERSELY AF/~.¢T ITS RIGHT TO OBTAIN WATER TO THE EXTENT OF ITS NEEDS FROM THE UNUERGROUND WATERS OF THE SANTA AHA BASIN, AND THIS HAS AT AT.T. TIMES BEEN A MATTER OF COMMON KNOW- ?.~nGE WITHIN THE AREA OF THE BASIN. THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE WATER WHICH THE CITY OF SANTA ANA WOULD HAVE BEEN TA~ING AND USING B~T FOR SUCH PROGRAM OF VOLUNTARY CURTAILMENT AND CON~I~R- VATION HAS B~mN PERMITTED BY Tm CITY OF SANTA ANA AS A MAT"ma OF FAVOR TO ITS PRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS AND NOT AS SOMETHING DEMANDABLE BT THEM AS OF RIGHT. 5TH - THAT THE FULL OPERATION OF ITS WELLS AND PUMPING E~UIP~T FROM Tlmm TO TIME SINCE THE HEGINNING OF THE OBTAINING OF ITS MAJOR SUPPLY FROM THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, AND THE PRESENT FULL OPERATION OF SAID WELLS AND PUMPING E~UIPMENT, HAVE ]~EEN AND A~ IN THE E]I~RCISE OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA IN AND TO '£n~ UNDERGROUND WATERS OF TEE BASIN OF THE SANTA ANA RIVER VALLEY, AND HAVE BEEN AND ARE IN'£~LNDED TO ~E AN ASSERTION CF SUOH HIGHT ADVERsF~LY AND IN HOSTILITY TO ANY CLAIM OF OTHERS TO HAVE AOQUIRED BY ADVERSE POSSESSION OR OTHERWISE ANY RIGHT IN SUCH WATERS INCONSISTENT WITH THE FULL EXERCISING OF THE SAID RIGHTS 0F THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, AND TO INTERRUPT ANT SUCH 0LA~D POSSESSION. IN ORDER THAT THE ATTITUDE OF THE CITY MAT BE C?.w. aRAY -6-