Archive for December 2023
2023 Year-End Report – From the President’s Desk
Together, New Mexicans made significant strides in addressing the multifaceted challenges of water management and conservation in New Mexico in 2023.
Read MoreWater Rights … and Water Wrongs
While the rules about them are extremely complicated, “water rights” are simply your permission slip from the State to use water, if you can find it (often a big “if”). ll too often people conflate paper water and wet water. The results can be seriously misleading or worse.
Read MoreWhat Rivers Know
“What Rivers Know, Listening to the Voices of Global Waterways” is a collection of twenty-five
essays written in the first person from the perspective of the water by Basia Irland — Prof. Emerita and founder of the Art and Ecology Program at UNM.
Clean Water in New Mexico
Climate warming and water supply reductions also produce a range of subsequent adverse effects on the quality of our surface waters, which are forecast to impact both human and environmental health negatively. These effects also require our increased focus and concern.
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