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A warmer climate could impact nearly every aspect of New Mexico’s water and land.
Dunbar listed likely impacts, including:
• Decreased aquifer recharge, more common and hotter drought periods, earlier winter runoff, greater groundwater demands and stress on plant life.
• Dry vegetation and catastrophic wildfires that could affect runoff and floodplain ecosystems.
• Warmer streams and rivers that could mean changing oxygen levels, which can disturb fish habitat.
“Likely the dominant impact on water quality going forward is going to be related to temperature increase,” Dunbar said.
State law requires that the Office of the State Engineer update a water plan every five years.
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Company Bottling Water In Chaffee County Met With Strong Opposition
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SALIDA, Colo. (CBS4) – Nestle Waters, now known as BlueTrition, will renew its contract to pump water from the Upper Arkansas River Basin for bottled water production. With the historic drought, the agreement has been met with opposition.
“Today we’re just trying to do damage control frankly. We need restorations that don’t allow pumping in a way that’s going to injure our aquifer and more than anything we need to have an environmental professional ecological review. There has not been one done since 2009,” said Angie Thompson, a spokeswoman at the Central Colorado Climate Coalition.