Environment
East Mountain water application spurs protests from residents, silence from State Engineer
By: Laura Paskus The tony neighborhoods tucked into the juniper-dotted grasslands on the east side of the Sandia Mountains represent yet another battleground in New Mexico’s water wars, one in which the state’s top water official has abandoned one side for the other. Recently, testimony ended in a trial over whether a private company can…
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US Supreme Court to decide how states share the drying Rio Grande, and New Mexico could lose big By Laura Paskus As severe drought returns to New Mexico, farmers and skiers alike fret over the state’s lack of snow. Meanwhile, on a cold, cloudy Monday morning in Washington, DC, attorneys for New Mexico, Texas, Colorado…
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