Join State Senator Harold Pope, Jr. and New Mexico Water Ambassadors Dr. Ladona Clayton and Patrick McCarthy to hear about outcomes of the 2025 Legislature, what water laws were passed, where water funding was appropriated, the water issues that were funded, and the water priorities that were not. Hear their suggestions for advocates this year to obtain better water resources management funding outcomes from the 2026 Legislature.
Fifteen years of Office of the State Engineer Water Master accounting data reveal the relationships among ABCWUA groundwater pumping, modeled Rio Grande stream depletions, and aquifer water levels measured at the USGS Del Sol Divider monitoring well. The Drinking Water Project dramatically reduced groundwater pumping from 2010 to 2019 — and the aquifer recovered more […]