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Mike Agar is an emeritus anthropology prof who works independently as Ethknoworks. He has been researching water governance in New Mexico for a few years and continues to climb the aquatic learning curve.

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Water in New Mexico: The Quest for New Tools and Rules

11. September 2013

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By Mike Agar Water in New Mexico: The Quest for New Tools and Rules

For "transformational change" to occur in New Mexico water policy, all stakeholders need to be at the table.

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Lessons from water - Never enough

30. May 2013

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By Mike Agar

I’m a student of water. I’ll never graduate because water teaches more than a lifetime can absorb. I’m trying to figure out New Mexico water — the projects and compacts and acequias and districts and adjudications and Pueblos and diversions and groundwater, and I’m marveling at how water disputes take forever and cost a fortune in legal fees. Words like dysfunctional and maladaptive come to mind.

One thing is clear. There isn’t enough water, and odds are there will be less of it as the years go by. Then what happens? ...

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