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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Arizona’s Democratic governor is wrong to fight federal cuts to the state’s Colorado River water in court.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs moved Oct. 16 to join a Nevada lawsuit against the Interior Department, and Burgum told Tucson’s 13 News in an interview published Wednesday that the case “may just get tossed out.” He called Arizona’s cuts for the first two years of the federal plan “completely manageable.”

“Litigation doesn’t create more water,” Burgum told the outlet. “We believe that the Governor is wrong on this topic.”

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Burgum argued that Arizona holds “among the most junior water rights of any of the seven states” and that a court fight “would be a bad deal for Arizona.”

The secretary was referring to the seven Western states in the 1922 Colorado River Compact that share the river’s basin: the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada and the Upper Basin states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

Hobbs said in an Oct. 16 release that Arizona is “drawing a line in the sand.” She said the federal government refuses “to hold the Upper Basin accountable for the water deliveries they owe Arizona.”

The state wants to keep its two-year Lower Basin deal with California and Nevada, the governor’s office said in the release. Arizona is challenging other parts of the federal plan that it says could cut Lower Basin water by as much as three million acre-feet a year.

A Hobbs spokesperson said in a statement to 13 News that the governor “would rather negotiate than fight in court, but the federal government and the Upper Basin have left Arizona with no choice.”

Hobbs’ office and the Interior Department did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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