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.
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 […]