Stuff you need to know, 1.12.23

“Possible deal to end Rio Grande SCOTUS case becomes public”
by Danielle Prokop, Source NM
January 11, 2023

If the agreement announced Monday between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas is allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas’s share of Rio Grande water would be measured at a point on the state line at an El Paso Gage instead of New Mexico’s current requirement to deliver Texas’s water 100-plus miles upstream at the Elephant Butte Reservoir. The agreement also offers a new set of calculations to determine what water is owed to southern New Mexico farmers and far west Texans, and incorporates groundwater pumping in the formulas.

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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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