"The Trump administration will grant states more time to work on a deal for reducing water use."
"State negotiators failed to meet a Tuesday deadline to reach an initial agreement over future operations of the drought-stricken Colorado River, but the Trump administration indicated it will allow states to continue bargaining.
The Trump administration had previously threatened that if the seven states that share the river did not come to a deal, the Interior Department could step in to decide how to impose cuts to water use.
Interior, the Bureau of Reclamation and the states — Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming — issued a joint statement Tuesday evening on the status of negotiations following a two-day meeting in Phoenix."
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