The Interior Secretary on Thursday warned that if the seven Colorado River states don’t come to a shortage-sharing agreement by Nov. 11 the federal government will step in.

Interior would “be intensely, consistently and constantly involved in discussions with the representatives of the seven basin states to forge a path forward together on the Colorado,” Secretary Doug Burgum said in a message relayed by the department, reports the Hill.

“He really wants to have the department help you arrive at a seven-state solution,” Scott Cameron, senior adviser to Burgum, told Colorado River commissioners from Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.

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