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Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Nearly 20 farms in southern New Mexico are one step closer to receiving state grants to stop using groundwater for a year as part of a water management pilot project for the Lower Rio Grande. An irrigation ditch is filled with water for alfalfa fields in the Mesilla Valley just west of Las Cruces. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal) Grants considered by the Interstate Stream Commission last week ranged from $9,000 to $90,000, and totaled more than $500...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... The trial of Intrepid Potash’s rights on the Pecos River in southeast New Mexico concluded as the company argued it had maintained its water rights for decades despite not using the water, while opponents contended the rights were abandoned and Intrepid had no claim to the river. The case centered ...

(Business in Cameroon) - On December 15, 2020, Jules Doret Ndongo (Minister of Forestry), Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi (Minister of Public Works), and Ibrahim Talba Malla (Minister in charge of Public Contracts) signed a joint order setting the terms for the use of legal timber in public procurement in Cameroon.  " The use of legal timber should be checked before the public procurement files are constituted. The legality of the timber is a major criterion for rating the public procurement orders ...

Listen to this post RBC | The White River Alliance, a local stakeholders group for the White River, met Dec. 4. Erin Light, the Division 6 Water Engineer, who is in charge of all administration of water rights on the White River (and Yampa and Green), was the guest speaker. She announced that Governor Polis had raised the level of drought preparedness from level 2 to level 3 based on the extent of the above average temperatures and below average precipitation. We are currently at 64% of snowpac...

Some 200 dams in New Mexico are rated to be in poor condition, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. They are a disaster waiting to happen. Crumbling infrastructure is avoidable, though, and legislators, the governor and our congressional delegation must do their utmost to lessen the danger. Find state and federal dollars dedicated to infrastructure projects and fix the dams. This could save lives, as more than 170 of the 500 dams in the state have potential to cause “loss of life...

And craig melvin was just saying that where he is, people seem to be somewhat not as concerned right now. somewhat more relieved that things might be over. where you are, are people still anxious about tonight as we head into the evening? >> not really. but you know, its just human nature. the sun is out. the sky is blue. it feels like its over. you know, you have to be a state engineer, whos looking at the dam and measuring the water levels to understand that the record is still at record level...