If you distill down what my six partners just said, I believe there’s three common things: Here’s all the great things my state has done. Here’s how hard/impossible it is to do any more. And here are all the reasons why other people should have to do more.

As long as we keep polishing those arguments and repeating them to each other, we are going nowhere.

John Entsminger, Southern Nevada Water Authority, speaking at the Colorado River Water Users Association