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Irrigators in the Lower Rio Grande corridor could be paid not to water their fields

The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission is hosting a series of events to provide irrigators with property in the Lower Rio Grande corridor with information about a groundwater conservation program. The program provides grants to compensate irrigators to voluntarily not irrigate previously irrigated land for two years. The application period opens on Monday and goes […]

New Mexico looking to boost water conservation by paying farmers to let their land go dry

The idea is to build off of a grant program to support irrigators that choose to stop irrigating their land for a one-year period. From 2020 to 2023, the Interstate Stream Commission gave out 73 grants to do just that, letting about 2,500 acres of land go temporarily dry.

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