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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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Study Questions NM Water Allocation

August 3, 2023
Water coming out of a pipe into a pond.

8.4.23 – Gene Grant and the Line Opinion Panel discuss a report from a national activist group that calls for New Mexico officials to pare back water access for agriculture businesses and to prioritize residential and drinking water. Gene asks the panelists to consider how the state’s water scarcity impacts farming, farmers and consumers. Host:…

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