Spencer Cox actually said...

"I would just say in my small town, we have a saying that whiskey is for drinking and water should be for fighting."

"In the big picture, it gives us some certainty when it comes to the water rights in the Colorado River Basin."

"We have committed to use negotiation rather than litigation as our preferred method of resolving reserved right claims."

"We recognize, however, that properly-established, federally-reserved water rights, particularly tribal rights, are an important exception to that rule."