Stuff you need to know, 12.11.23

“New Mexico to invest $500M in first-of-its-kind strategic water supply build-out”
by Sharon Udasin, The Hill
December 5, 2023

New Mexico will purchase a “strategic” reserve of treated oilfield wastewater, if a proposal from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is approved by lawmakers in the legislative session upcoming in January. Grisham announced her administration’s plan to create this new water supply last week during the COP 28 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The reserve will be tapped to provide water to various “clean” energy projects like storing renewable energy or building electric vehicles.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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