Posts Tagged ‘New Mexico water’
Another Dry Season for the Rio Grande
February 5, 2021 – A below-average snowpack this year foretells another bad year for irrigators along the Rio Grande. Below Elephant Butte reservoir, farmers have been told to expect a zero-allotment year as New Mexico delivers promised water to Texas. In the Middle Rio Grande, growers have already been urged not to plant crops unless…
Read MoreStates Agree to Help NM Farmers on the Rio Grande
July 24, 2020 – It’s another hot, dry year for New Mexico and the state’s largest river. The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District was even set to run out of water to deliver to farmers. But an agreement between Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas is allowing the release of 38,000 acre feet of water –…
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