This interactive workshop had a panel of three former members of the 2022 State Engineer’s Water Policy and Infrastructure Task Force, Phil King, Ladona Clayton, and Norm Gaume. The panelists are working together currently as NM Water Ambassadors. The Water Ambassadors joint purpose is to advocate for all the water task force recommendations. The panelists each presented their highest priorities for water funding and policy, and why. The joint funding requests to the 2024 Legislature of Dr. Ladona Clayton, Executive Director, Ogallala Land and Water Conservancy, and Norm Gaume, P.E. (ret), President, Water Advocates, are available here.
Fracking Waste Reuse Hype Defeated by Science and Citizen Action In December 2023, from the global stage of COP28 in Dubai, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a headline-grabbing initiative: a $500 million Strategic Water Supply program that would purchase and bank treated brackish and “produced water” (oil and gas fracking wastewater) at many locations across […]