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.
Along the stretch of the Middle Rio Grande where I frequently walk, birdsong is scarce this spring, even in the early mornings. Already, more than 40 miles of the river are dry. As the Southwest grows more arid and the bad years hit harder, Laura Paskus asks what it means to love a river. In […]