Recent studies finding "forever" chemicals and plutonium in New Mexico's rivers and groundwaters indicate that our water pollution problem has reached crisis proportions.
The great artist Diego Velazquez painted royalty as they were, often blank-eyed and taken up with amusing themselves with court jesters instead of serious matters of state. There are Velazquez-like parallels with the supposedly democratic T or C city commission.
A new study provides needed specificity about the uses to which the Colorado's irrigation water is put in the river's basin, which includes New Mexico.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments regarding the legitimacy of the proposed resolution of the Rio Grande water dispute between Texas and New Mexico.
The state was very good to the city this legislative session, obviously recognizing its waterline crisis.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: The start time and allotments of Rio Grande irrigation waters for Sierra and Doña Ana counties were set yesterday. So why was the river running south of Caballo Dam over last weekend?
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Fourteen projects in New Mexico's Second Congressional District put forward by U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez will receive funding as allocated in the six appropriation bills recently passed by Congress and signed by the president.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Eighty-one community projects in New Mexico put forward by U.S. Senator Martin S. Heinrich will receive funding as allocated in the six appropriation bills recently passed by Congress and signed by the president.
While waiting for a decision on the mine's protested application to transfer water rights to their wells for use at Copper Flat, I thought you might be interested in the positions finally taken by all the parties in the trial.
NMDOH will be offering free well water quality testing to 100 local private wells. See if you qualify.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Seven-state negotiations over future Colorado River water distribution cuts have stalled again.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Experts agree that New Mexico's normal or better snowpack will not spell drought relief.
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