The severe, rapidly accumulating water debt under the Rio Grande Compact and the controversial push by companies to establish water-intensive Data Centers and produced (fracking) water in the state are worsening our water crisis. Learn exactly how the state’s chronic neglect of the Compact is impacting all of us and discover how data centers will drain our already over-allocated aquifers. Join us to understand the stakes, understand overuse, and the preposterous proposed uses of our limited water supply. We’ll conclude with specific, immediate actions citizens can take to demand enforcement and to protect our water supply from further political and corporate abuse.
A winter block release of 26,000 acre-feet of stored Rio Chama water was intended to reduce New Mexico’s Rio Grande Compact underdelivery. Hydrographs show that much of the water never reached Elephant Butte Reservoir. The Middle Rio Grande absorbed it.