Cities’ Water Needs Could Deplete Rural Areas
“Communities in rural New Mexico are watching apprehensively as the Rio Grande Valley’s growing water needs threaten to deplete their water resources, two state legislators said recently. Attorneys for members of several of the communities have challenged applications to the Office of the State Engineer (OSE) by the developers of two large projects to transfer water from other parts of the state into the Valley…
State Representatives Don L. Tripp, R-Socorro, and Dennis Kintigh, R-Roswell, said the cases highlight a larger issue: attempts to transfer water to meet the critical water needs of cities in the Rio Grande Valley are a threat to their constituents’ ways of life.“ Veritas New Mexico
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