Washington, July 31 -- Congressman Greg Stanton issued the following news release:
PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz) issued the following statement:
"Solving the Colorado River crisis for the long term demands a fair, workable, basin-wide solution where every state has skin in the game. What we got today is the opposite. Again and again, the federal government refuses to force the Upper Basin to put cuts on the table and entertains scenarios that would devastate Arizona. It is a total failure of leadership.
Making Arizona shoulder the burden of a shrinking Colorado River ignores our decades of leadership in water conservation, and it ignores our economic and national security importance. Arizona is now America's se...