Cynthia Lummis actually said...

"water is essential to life."

"Water transcends partisan politics, it transcends regions, it transcends the kinds of issues that divide us here in Congress."

"God help us if we are not smart enough to seize the moment. And that moment is the water, as the underlying blood of all of us."

"If additional storage had been in place, would some of the water that was turned out, would it have been available for capture, increasing storage water?"