I wrongly assumed T or C had about 1,000 acre feet a year to parlay to attract development. The state lost a decade-long lawsuit to Texas and the city's unused water rights could be reclaimed, especially since it's wasting up to 47 percent of its water due to infrastructure neglect.
Basic New Mexico water law will help you understand how the Settlement Agreement which ended the Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado lawsuit will affect your water use and your taxes.
Sierra County joins Santa Fe and Socorro counties with moratorium on new data centers before a record crowed at public hearing.
The closure of the Hot Springs Basin three years ago has made Mark Twain's words even more applicable: "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over." The city is not using about 1,000 acre feet a year of its water rights, making it a heavy weight.
Looks like the public is supporting a 21 year-old spaceport and still hoping it will reach adulthood, although it will likely take another 20 years to gain self-sufficiency, if ever. Does the public want to pay for a 41-year gestation period?
The settlement of Texas’ suit against New Mexico ended the legal proceedings that have so vaguely and abstractly hovered unnoticed over our lives, but the consequences of that settlement will be dominating our lives specifically, concretely (meaning economically), and most noticeably in the coming years.
Some locals want to see Sierra County moratorium on computer data centers. County commission chairman threatens to eject proponents for applauding at public comment period.
A new airport layout plan is needed, but nearly $600,000 worth? Why spend time and money on future growth and development if there is no water out there and new water appropriations are limited due to a closed basin? Shouldn't water availability be studied first?
A couple of days ago, the Supreme Court approved the Special Master’s Fourth Interim Report on the case known as “No. 141 Original Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado.”
What the city's future and functionality will be rests largely in the ICIP process. The city needs to up its game in this area to include harnessing the community's support and power. City Manager Gary Whitehead already has game, thank goodness.
In go(l)d we trust: a look at negative gearing, what it is, and how it can finance mining projects in Sierra County.
We are depleting the Rio Grande Basin faster and faster every year, the groundwater 15 times faster than the river waters, reports the first comprehensive study of consumption in the whole Rio Grande/Bravo Basin system.
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