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.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... The Rio Grande at N.M. 346 in June. About 12 billion gallons of stored water from El Vado Reservoir helped keep the river flowing in central New Mexico last year, but water managers won’t have that option this year. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico water agencies are urging farmers to think twice about planting crops in what could be a tight water year. The stat...

LAS CRUCES - The New Mexico House Rules and Order of Business Committee approved new rules Friday, Jan. 22, requiring that all debate during floor sessions and committee meetings this year be conducted by Zoom. The meetings will be broadcast online, with some ability to provide comments during committee debates. All legislation to be considered by the full House will be placed on a temporary calendar for at least 24 hours in an effort to improve transparency. “These temporary rule changes are necessary to ensure fair and remote participation by the public and legislators so that the state c...

Legislature notebook: House passes new rules for virtual session Walter Rubel, Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative © Cedar Attanasio/AP Leaves turn red outside the New Mexico State Capitol building, known as the Roundhouse, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. LAS CRUCES – The New Mexico House Rules and Order of Business Committee approved new rules Friday, Jan. 22, requiring that all debate during floor sessions and committee meetings this year be conducted by Zoom. The meetings will be broadcast online, with some ability to provide comments during committe...

Commission official says Carlsbad Irrigation District still likely to have water shortfall Even with pumping from its wellfields in southeastern New Mexico, the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission thinks the Carlsbad Irrigation District will have significantly less than 50,000 acre-feet of water available for the 2021 irrigation season, a state official said. Hannah Riseley-White, deputy director of the commission and the Pecos River Basin bureau chief, gave an update Friday about the use of the wellfields at Seven Rivers near Brantley Reservoir and at Lake Arthur. She said almost 6,000 a...

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...