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The Rio Grande through the metro might catch your eye in the coming days with higher water levels that are expected to continue increasing. Stored water is now being released from Cochiti and Abiquiu reservoirs, and it's a lot more than usual. 

There have been a record number of water rescues from the Rio Grande this year, and now the water is finally slowing down.

New Mexico has to give a certain portion of Rio Grande water to Texas under the Rio Grande Compact. And when there's more water, more of it has to make it to New Mexico's neighbors.

So far snow pack and soil moisture conditions are much better now than this time last year, which will result in higher and longer flows.

As Rio Grande water dwindles to a mere trickle in the Albuquerque area for the first time since the early 1980s, irrigators are facing the possibility that only the Pueblos will be able to draw water from the river. A 1928 agreement means that Pueblo water rights are considered “prior and paramount.” That means the […]

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.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... An Albuquerque Fire Rescue crew battles a small fire in the Rio Grande Bosque near Tingley Beach on April 26. This week, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District said it would work with local fire departments to determine if the drought would merit bosque restrictions this summer. (Adolphe Pierre-L...