Join three professionals who worked as members of the 2022 NM Water Policy and Infrastructure Task Force to learn about the Water Security Agenda for the 2025 Legislature. The plain truth is the Legislature has, for years, neglected to adequately fund implementation of the laws it has passed and the programs it has started to increase the resilience of New Mexico’s overused and shrinking water supplies. Modernization of state water agencies, robust regional water security planning, and stopping illegal water overuse are essential steps toward improved water security for all New Mexico regions and communities.
Our state is facing a catastrophic water crisis and is currently failing to meet a critical legal obligation under the Rio Grande Compact. New Mexico's cumulative water delivery debt to Elephant Butte Reservoir has reached 167,600 acre-feet—perilously close to the Compact’s 200,000 acre-foot legal limit. We are operating on borrowed time and borrowed water and […]