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.
Brian Richter has spent four decades solving water crises in more than 40 countries. His verdict on New Mexico: it's among the worst he's seen. The state already owes Texas water it doesn't have — and if that debt keeps growing, the U.S. Supreme Court will force New Mexico to turn off its Middle Rio […]