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The Biden administration is trying to throw a Hail Mary to save the Colorado River before Trump takes over

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The Biden administration is swimming against the current to get seven Western states to agree to divvy up the Colorado River’s water.

Getting all states and stakeholders to agree in just two months how much water they could be entitled to for decades is extremely doubtful, if not impossible.

Scientists warn the basin remains in a downward spiral; rising temperatures have sucked more than 10 trillion gallons of water out of the river system between 2000 and 2021 .