A discussion with Nat Chakeres, OSE General Counsel, and Tanya Trujillo, Deputy State Engineer, discussing how the OSE is managing Rio Grande Compact compliance in the Middle Rio Grande and below Elephant Butte Dam in the Lower Rio Grande. Learn about incentives and motivators that the OSE can use to ensure that New Mexico complies with its legal water sharing mandates.
The term "water crisis" gets used for everything from short droughts to decades of overuse. A 2026 UN water institute article draws a sharper distinction: many aquifers aren't in crisis — they're in a "post-crisis failure state," or what the author calls water bankruptcy. Mike Marcus examines New Mexico Groundwater Dashboard data to ask where […]