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“2011 Elephant Butte water compact dispute reaches resolution”
by Natalie Wadas, KRQE TV News 13
January 4, 2023

As part of the agreement with Texas, New Mexico will get a 32,500 acre-feet credit taken off its water debt in the Interstate Water Compact. It doesn’t mean that farmers below Elephant Butte Reservoir in the lower Rio Grande will have more water than they can actually use this year.

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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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