Eighty-five years of Rio Grande Compact accounting data tell a clear and troubling story. The 17-year period from 2009 through 2025 produced native basin […]
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Climate Impact
Understand how climate change is affecting New Mexico’s water resources, leading to reduced snowpack, earlier snowmelt, and increased evaporation.
New Mexico’s water crisis is accelerating, yet the Senate Finance Committee reduced funding for the very institutions responsible for managing it. The Office of […]
New Mexico’s water crisis cannot be separated from its energy decisions. Blackstone’s proposed private-equity buyout of PNM would intensify data-center-driven power demand, raise rates, […]
The Clear Horizon Act pilgrimage is East of the Manzano Mountains now, close to Cibola National Forest with its elevation varied flora & fauna […]
New basin-wide science shows groundwater depletion in New Mexico is already well documented and driven primarily by irrigated agriculture. This long-form analysis explains why […]
Groundwater supplies more than half of New Mexico’s water, yet pumping continues to exceed recharge almost everywhere. A new statewide groundwater report explains the […]