The fight between Texas and New Mexico over the management of one of the longest rivers in North America could be nearing an end.
This April 10, 2022 image shows the Rio Grande flowing just north of Albuquerque, N.M. State and regional water managers are encouraging some farmers to forego irrigation allotments this season in exchange for compensation as they look leave more water in the river to meet interstate water-sharing compacts.
“We assembled the best legal and scientific team in the nation to disprove that our farmers and our communities owed billions in damages to Texas, and we are now on the cusp of an exciting historic settlement agreement that will protect New Mexico water for generations to come,” Balderas said in a statement.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office did not immediately respond to questions about the negotiations or a possible settlement.
Texas has argued that groundwater pumping in southern New Mexico is reducing the river’s flow and cutting into how much water makes it across the border. New Mexico argues that it has been shorted on its share of the river. “Like many river basins throughout the American West, we are approaching a crisis point,” she said. “Climate change is throwing into sharp relief the cracks in western water management and policy and the unsustainable water allocation included in that.”
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