… the ability of the dams to generate electricity which powers millions of homes in the West. The states worked on it. They didn't come up with an agreement. And yet The Bureau of Reclamation had promised, if [the states] don't do it, we're going to do it, they didn't follow through with that either. So I feel like that's a failure in that we really need the federal government's authority to push all of the states to do their fair share. (06:44–06:54)
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Asserts that the Bureau of Reclamation did not follow through on its promise to enforce water cutbacks if states failed to agree.
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