Stuff you need to know, 2.13.24

“New Mexico’s 50-Year Water Action Plan — Is it Good Enough?”
by V. B. Price, Mercury Messenger
February 12, 2024

The data-rich report finally gives the New Mexico Legislature, state agencies, water conservation groups and the public something to work with and evolve. But its chief problem is that it doesn’t prioritize solving the indisputable existential water crisis in the state: ground water pollution. 

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“Gov’s half-billion bid on Strategic Water Supply wobbles”
by Danielle Prokop, Source NM
February 12, 2024

Govenor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s $500 million plan to create a market for treated brackish water, and oil and gas wastewater, faces an unexpected time crunch after it was struck over the weekend from a list of long-term funding proposals to be considered by the Senate Finance Committee.

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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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