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Your turn: It's time for water justice in Southwestern New Mexico Your turn I have watched, frustrated, for more than 15 years as the Interstate Stream Commission (ISC) and the NM Central Arizona Project Entity (NMCAPE) have floundered in their efforts to plan an unaffordable Gila River diversion. These groups have wasted more than $15 million in Federal funding on diversion planning, while millions of dollars in local community water projects in southwest New Mexico go unfunded.  Fortunately, the diversion planning finally came to an end this past June, when ISC commissioners voted to stop...

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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 $500,000. The Office of the State Engineer has certified that the farms, trusts and corporations have va...

March 27, 2015 P.O. Box 1371 Silver City Independent Publishing Co. LLC Copyright © 2018 - All rights reserved ×