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.
Lessons from water – Never enough
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? …