By Scott Wyland, The Santa Fe New Mexican Regulators are requesting $600,000 this legislative session to aid the state in establishing the authority to safeguard New Mexico's waterways after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling disqualified most of them from federal protection. The need for full state autonomy in managing water resources, which are declining as
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Most of New Mexico s wetlands will be unprotected from homebuilders, mining interests, fossil fuel operators, agriculture and others that could displace them.