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The water available to many northern Mexico residents is drying up for reasons that go beyond the impact of climate warming. Political decisions, international water law, and dwindling resources are also to blame, say two Syracuse University professors. Elizabeth Carter is.
The Colorado River supplies water for more than 36 million people in two countries and seven states, including New Mexico. As river flows and reservoir levels decline due to drought, warming and over-demand, states are wrangling over how to voluntarily conserve water use before reservoir levels reach critically low levels and trigger mandatory cutbacks. New Mexico […]
As the federal government directs more and more scrutiny on the Colorado River and its tributaries, the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer is developing systems to better account for how much water is diverted from the San Juan River and how much is returned in hopes of demonstrating to both federal partners and […]
As Rio Grande water dwindles to a mere trickle in the Albuquerque area for the first time since the early 1980s, irrigators are facing the possibility that only the Pueblos will be able to draw water from the river. A 1928 agreement means that Pueblo water rights are considered “prior and paramount.” That means the […]