groundwater pump in chile field
Photograph by Luis Rios/Sierra County Sun

Stuff you need to know, 2.15.23

“NM officials request $125M over five years to cut groundwater pumping below Elephant Butte”
by Danielle Prokop, Source NM
February 10, 2023

Though awaiting decision on a Supreme Court case that could potentially resolve the New Mexico-Texas water dispute is months off, state officials and legal counsel want to make changes to conserve groundwater water. $75 million of their budget request would go to projects recharging the aquifer, and potentially desalinating water in the Mesilla Valley; the rest would go to programs to retire farmlands.

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“Legislation aimed at restructuring the New Mexico Game Commission”
by Hannah Grover, NM Political Report
February 14, 2023

House Bill 184, which proposes changes both to who serves on the commission and how they are appointed, passed the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee on Monday. Southern New Mexico wildlife advocate Mary Katherine Ray provided testimony.

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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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