NM Legislature
From the President’s Desk
September was a pivotal month in advancing equitable adaptation to escalating water scarcity within the Middle Rio Grande. Please follow our work and attend our October and November events.
Read MoreThe 2024 Legislature Must Think Water: Act Now!
Wake Up New Mexico. Collectively, we are asleep at the wheel. Our collective inaction puts our water security, and therefore our economic security, at risk.
Read MoreA Tipping Point Foretold
Will the future see the 2023 Legislature’s approval of new water policy laws and funding as a tipping point? As advocates for the improved water governance that New Mexico’s future requires, let’s work together to make it so!
Read MoreWill 2023 Be a Pivotal New Mexico Water Year?
2022 made the case for change. New Mexico’s pivot to Secure New Mexico’s Water Future depends on the Governor and the 2023 Legislature.
Read MoreVoters across New Mexico are concerned about water resources.
Polling shows 75 percent of likely voters agree or strongly agree that we need to act now to ensure that future generations have an adequate water supply. Two thirds of voters agree or strongly agree that the New Mexico Government needs to modernize and dedicate more funding towards the management of our water quality and…
Read MoreNew Mexico Water Governance Reform is Essential to Increase Water Sustainability and Reduce Future Water Insecurity
New Mexico’s existing water governance is not working and is wrong for the 21st century.
Read MoreWater Advocates Policy Statement: Vision, Plain Truths, and Commitments
Vision: New Mexico will equitably and effectively adapt to climate change and to sustain what we value: our diverse cultures, our people and economy, food production, and riverine and riparian ecosystems. New Mexicans will act now to secure New Mexico’s water future. The Middle Rio Grande Water Advocates will support equitable, evidence-based, water planning, management,…
Read MorePlanning for Effective Water Governance – A MRGWA Proposal
Introduction: Now that New Mexico has finally recognized and accepted the reality of climate change, it’s time to realign our water planning processes to that reality. Based, in part, upon concerns with previous water planning processes, the Middle Rio Grande Water Advocates is developing a proposal for an updated water planning paradigm. It is entitled…
Read MoreMiddle Rio Grande Plain Truths–Please Email Senate Finance Committee Members
2021 will bring a wake-up call that will be hard to ignore. We must pivot to cooperatively face our existential water supply issues. The days and years of reckoning are upon us.
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