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Colorado’s Rio Grande Division Engineer, Pat McDermott, told the Rio Grande Basin Roundtable that the Middle Rio Grande might see roughly 5,000 acre-feet of this water, but that it would likely not extend as far south as Elephant Butte Reservoir. The Rio Grande benefit in New Mexico actually was much larger but he was right about Elephant Butte.
inclusive of regional community concerns, ideas, spared & shared water to blend with science based models of resilience for lifting Brother River from his desiccated riverbed to once again life giving vitality.
Without funding, New Mexico will remain in emergency mode—reacting to shortages, assuming the enormous risk and costs that a compact violation unleashes, and defending against new Texas litigation—instead of preventing or managing to mitigate them.
Feasibility means not only whether something can be done, but whether it can be done consistently in a way that protects human health and the environment (technical feasibility) and is financially sustainable (economic feasibility). If either fail, the result will […]
Our state is facing a catastrophic water crisis and is currently failing to meet a critical legal obligation under the Rio Grande Compact. New Mexico's cumulative water delivery debt to Elephant Butte Reservoir has reached 167,600 acre-feet—perilously close to the […]
The ISC’s Rulemaking Hearing on New Mexico’s Water Security Planning Act Record Closed “Record closed.” Hearing Officer Felicia Orth declared it at the close of the Interstate Stream Commission’s three-day evidentiary hearing. The Commission now must decide what changes to […]
Why is the Upper Rio Grande Green? Visitors this past summer to the Río Grande del Norte National Monument observed that the river’s water, even upstream from its confluence with the Red River, appeared greenish. Why was that? As suggested […]
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