From acequias to groundwater-dependent communities across the state, New Mexicans are living the consequences of the state's approach to water governance. To meet New […]
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New Mexico faces a water governance crisis decades in the making. This article calls for urgent legislative and executive action, accountability for unsustainable groundwater […]
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 […]
Despite its importance, groundwater is too often treated as invisible or secondary—governed inconsistently, measured incompletely, and managed with outdated frameworks.
by John R. Brown This essay argues for an alternative to a mechanistic application of “priority administration” to allocate the “waters of New Mexico.” […]
Introduction The NM Legislature intended regional water security planning to be a New Mexico regional and community water resilience problem-solving tool and unanimously passed […]