While summer rains are important to the Rio Grande water supply, this year’s monsoon has not delivered. Join NM State Climatologist Dr. David DuBois and Dr. Phil King to review the newest information about the Super El Niño, New Mexico’s Rio Grande water supplies, and the future. Norm Gaume, New Mexico Water Advocates president, will also present new insights about Middle Rio Grande compact compliance using data newly digitized from Interstate Stream Commission files.
Fifteen years of Office of the State Engineer Water Master accounting data reveal the relationships among ABCWUA groundwater pumping, modeled Rio Grande stream depletions, and aquifer water levels measured at the USGS Del Sol Divider monitoring well. The Drinking Water Project dramatically reduced groundwater pumping from 2010 to 2019 — and the aquifer recovered more […]