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 permit application by Niagara Bottling, the Village of Los Lunas, and PNM to move old PNM water rights to Village wells for use at Niagara’s bottling plant faces strong legal objections. I formally protested this application to the State Engineer because it would do public harm. It would worsen the Middle Rio Grande’s Compact […]