Join us for an important discussion about the proposed water rights transfer by Niagara, PNM, and Village of Los Lunas. Teresa Smith de Cherif of Valencia Soil & Water Conservation Board and Kathy McCord of Valencia Water Watchers will help us understand how this proposed transfer goes against New Mexico water law, doesn’t conserve water, and violates the public welfare. This application is about yet another corporation putting profit and greed above the good of the land, water, and people of New Mexico.
New Mexico is undergoing aridification — a permanent, worsening shift in its hydrologic baseline. The state's draft Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan uses the word "drought" throughout, cites a fifty-year projection, and averts its eyes from a collapse that is happening now.