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Water Debts and Climate Change Are Drying NM Rivers, Reservoirs

August 29, 2025
A mostly dry riverbed with scattered shallow streams, surrounded by green vegetation, under a partly cloudy sky with mountains in the background.

8.29.25 – Correspondent Elizabeth Miller takes us to the Rio Grande and the Elephant Butte Reservoir, where the state’s water woes can be felt the hardest. Miller speaks with two experts to learn about the water management realities that brought us to this point, and how the bosque is trying to hang on through the…

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Election Map Controversy; NM Rivers Still Drying

August 29, 2025
A yellow outline of New Mexico’s state flag is centered between a blue Democratic donkey and a red Republican elephant, both decorated with stars, against a colorful cosmic background.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, national headlines on the redrawing of congressional maps have hit our state. Host Nash Jones spoke with Democratic state Sen. Harold Pope, one of two lawmakers who stepped down from the New Mexico Redistricting Task Force. Pope tells Nash why Republican gerrymandering in other states led him to quit…

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