Interior officials are losing their patience with states as the West’s most important river teeters on the brink of crisis.

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The lifeblood of the West is drying up — and scrambling state and local politics.

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The fight over the Colorado River’s dwindling resources is made for MAGA — but so far the Trump administration has been playing it straight.

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