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We Must ‘Take Prompt Action’

Friends smoke cigarettes near the sunken vertical boat.
Friends smoke cigarettes near the sunken vertical boat. Photo: John Locher (AP)

“We have never taken this step before in the Colorado River basin,” Tanya Trujillo, an Interior Department assistant secretary, said in May when the government decided to keep water upstream. “But the conditions we see today, and the potential risks we see on the horizon, demand that we take prompt action.”

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