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.
Public comments on the Interstate Stream Commission’s proposed water planning rules reveal an unusual consensus across New Mexico — scientists, farmers, acequias, counties, and conservationists all say the rules fall short. The process the ISC will use to adopt them may prove just as flawed.