Governors Wade into the Fight over Colorado River Rights

For a life-sustaining natural resource relied on by tens of millions of people and fought over by seven states and two countries, the fate of the Colorado River often flies under the national political radar.

The struggle over how to share the dwindling river has mostly been hashed out in the insular world of water managers, experienced technocrats who often keep their jobs as governors come and go. Alliances among Colorado River Basin states cross partisan lines. And even though the federal government controls the flow from reservoirs, the White House generally stays out of the fray.

That may be changing.

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