The federal agencies responsible for managing the ever-shrinking Colorado River have two new leaders at the helm.

Scott Cameron, who previously served as acting assistant Interior secretary for water and science, will lead the Bureau of Reclamation as acting commissioner. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum appointed him Wednesday through a secretarial order .

The Bureau of Reclamation, which is housed in the Interior Department, oversees dams and water in the West.

That includes the painful process to update the operating guidelines for the Colorado River — where Southern Nevada sources about 90 percent of its water. The decision making is largely left to the seven basin states.

As Burgum’s senior adviser on the Colorado River negotiations that have left states divided with a deadline loom

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