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.
Why is the Upper Rio Grande Green? Visitors this past summer to the Río Grande del Norte National Monument observed that the river’s water, even upstream from its confluence with the Red River, appeared greenish. Why was that? As suggested in the above title, low river flows and high water temperatures, a result of climate […]