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Water is in high demand these days and those in the business of growing cannabis in New Mexico (producers) or processing it into various products through infusion and extraction methods...

The New Mexico State Legislature’s Water and Natural Resources Committee hosted a meeting in Clovis this week at which the Ute Water Pipeline was

In New Mexico and throughout the desert southwest, it is a precious, scarce resource. How it should be used, managed and doled out are topics of hot debate, and across the globe, communities struggle to keep up with water demand for direct human consumption, commercial and agricultural uses.

Gardner Dam is classified as a "high hazard structure" with the Office of State Engineer Dam Safety Bureau, the county said.

A mining company and government agencies repeatedly said they’d clean up waste in Homestake, New Mexico. Instead, they’re buying out homeowners.

It all began in 2007 when two residents were shocked to see a legal advertisement from a neighboring property proposing to mine an ocean of water.

The Colorado River supplies water for more than 36 million people in two countries and seven states, including New Mexico. As river flows and reservoir levels decline due to drought, warming and over-demand, states are wrangling over how to voluntarily conserve water use—before reservoir levels reach critically low levels and trigger mandatory cutbacks. New Mexico […]

Socorro resident Jim Ruff captures in one sentence what people in his region don’t like about plans of the Augustin Plains Ranch (APR) to pump 54,000 acre-feet of water a

The legal battles in a controversial water project are continuing as the state’s Court of Appeals remanded it back to district court. Augustin Plains Ranch LLC sued the state engineer after the office rejected a proposal to pump 54,000 acre feet of water annually from an aquifer in southwestern New Mexico and pipe it hundreds […]

The “death map” tells the story of decades of sickness in the small northwest New Mexico communities of Murray Acres and Broadview Acres. Turquoise arrows point to homes where residents had thyroid disease, dark blue arrows mark cases of breast cancer, and yellow arrows mean cancer claimed a life. Neighbors built the map a decade ago after watching relatives and friends fall ill and die. Dominating the top right corner of the map, less than half a mile from the cluster of colorful arrows, ...