Leaders in California, Arizona and Nevada sent a letter to Doug Burgum, the newly-appointed Secretary of the Interior.
The seven states that share the river are under pressure to create a new plan for dividing its shrinking supplies before 2026.
The states that sent the mid-February letter represent the Lower Basin, one of two factions in a tense standoff over new river rules.
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The government-backed Social Investment Research Council is newly formed to hatch practical insights into social investment market products, and the investors needed to finance them.