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 Bureau of Reclamation hydrologic engineer promptly responded to my request for updated Rio Grande Compact accounting data through August 2025. Based on that information and my analysis, the Middle Rio Grande’s 2025 water delivery shortfall is alarmingly large. Summer rains wet the land but not the river, leaving New Mexico much closer to serious […]





