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.
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.