A Bureau of Reclamation hydrologic engineer promptly responded to my request for updated Rio Grande Compact accounting data through August 2025. Based on that […]
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Interstate Stream Compacts
Learn about water usage issues affecting the agreements that govern the sharing of water resources between New Mexico and its neighboring states.
New Mexico is hurdling toward a new Compact crisis. In 2025, river water shortfalls exceed 50%, the Rio Grande is dry through Albuquerque, and […]
New Mexico's Rio Grande Compact water debt has deepened to -161,400 acre-feet. A former ISC Director shares his provisional estimates and warns of looming […]
New Mexico is not confronting a legal and water management crisis in the Middle Rio Grande. Public conversations are missing, including at the 2025 […]
New Mexico’s water resource management agencies are telling the Legislature that New Mexico faces Middle Rio Grande compact jeopardy and lacks capacity to prevent […]
The inconvenient truth is New Mexico’s economic well-being depends critically upon water. We are already in one of the driest periods in the last […]