water management

Costs, and other factors, such as drought, are forcing food industry farmers and ranchers to choose between taking a loss or raising the price for the customer. Farmers, ranchers, and food network organizers met with Senator Martin Heinrich to discuss these challenges and ways the federal government could help.

Researchers are scrambling to study the Rio Grande's response amid vegetation die-off in the beloved Bosque.

After years of stalled negotiations, the Department of the Interior releases final Environmental Impact Statement, covering 10 years of future management for seven states

Advocates want strict rules to protect the state’s centuries-old irrigation system, which provides water for families and agriculture.

Estevan López, New Mexico's water negotiator, said talks resumed March 2, and the upper and lower basin states are using a short-term pitch from Nevada as a starting point.

Leaders of environmental groups are issuing fresh warnings this week about the impacts the ongoing gridlock could have in the river basin.

Record low snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin is raising serious concern for downstream users – like New Mexico.

Future climate modeling predicts New Mexico will have far less water in the coming decades, which will likely shift the migratory patterns of large birds to the state – including the beloved sandhill crane and Ross’s goose.

New data from the Bureau of Reclamation puts the river and its reservoirs in formal shortage conditions. Policymakers are stuck on ways to fix that in the years to come.

States that use Colorado River water need to agree on new rules for sharing it by 2026. If they don't, they will likely end up in messy court battles.