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The House of Representatives passed a bill that would create a pilot project focused on cloud seeding in southeast New Mexico on a 61-6 vote Monday. Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to increase the amount of precipitation. The budget bill passed by the House and Senate currently has $1 million

The House of Representatives passed legislation that would amend the Water Project Finance Act on a 67-0 vote Saturday . One of the ways that HB 211 amends the Water Project Finance Act is to allow funding available through the Water Trust Board to be used on wastewater projects. Initially, the bill eliminated the use

A 50-year water plan was released by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to counteract the expected loss of 25 percent of New Mexico's freshwater.

News from Grant County, New Mexico

News from Grant County, New Mexico

Samantha Barncastle, general counsel of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, told state lawmakers that a settlement in an interstate compact compliance case involving the Rio Grande will not lead to an end of litigation. “The farmers will push back somewhere,” she said during a Water and Natural Resources Committee meeting Tuesday in Las Cruces. The […]

The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission is hosting a series of events to provide irrigators with property in the Lower Rio Grande corridor with information about a groundwater conservation program. The program provides grants to compensate irrigators to voluntarily not irrigate previously irrigated land for two years. The application period opens on Monday and goes […]

The expanded "fallowing" program aims to help replenish Southern New Mexicos drought-stricken aquifer.

Legislators and advocates alike proclaimed the legislative session of 2023 the “Year of Water”. This was not an accident, this was hard work on the part of the scientific community,

The idea is to build off of a grant program to support irrigators that choose to stop irrigating their land for a one-year period. From 2020 to 2023, the Interstate Stream Commission gave out 73 grants to do just that, letting about 2,500 acres of land go temporarily dry.