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A dry 2011 on the Rio Grande
Based on a preliminary assessment from the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, 2011 was the driest year since 2003 on the Rio Grande, with roughly 550,000 acre feet of native… Read more
Around the tubes, water management edition
Some water management-related reading from around the ‘Net in recent days: E&E has a must-read account of the science, politics and policy of flood management on the Mississippi. If you… Read more
Decent New Mexico Snowpack So Far
New Mexico’s snowpack is looking surprisingly healthy for the first week of January in a La Niña year. Southern New Mexico, normally the dry spot in a La Niña, has… Read more
Sunday bird blogging
Judy Liddell, author of the terrific new book Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico, emailed me last night to alert me to a couple of rare birds that have… Read more
Around the tubes, wrapping up
A few links from around the Internet: Via Bruce Katz, a look at how municipalities are responding to the decline of urban convention centers: “By building more convention centers, of… Read more
Groundwater recovery: the silver lining has a cloud
File this under “no good deed goes unpunished”. As I noted in a Sunday story, we’re starting to see evidence that Albuquerque’s groundwater levels are responding to reduced pumping as… Read more
Aquifer bouncing back
The graph at the right shows the surface of the water table over the past decade at Del Sol Park, near the intersection of Constitution and Carlisle, courtesy of the… Read more
Upper Colorado River Commission Honors John D’Antonio
One of the most important New Mexico state government jobs you’ve never heard of is the state’s seat on the Upper Colorado River Commission. It’s the group that wrangles over… Read more
Around the Tubes
Some reading for a Christmas Eve Eve: Keith Schneider has been out exploring the implications of the energy boom in rural US. His latest, from North Dakota: “Terrell is a… Read more
Sorting out what happens next at CMRR
While I was away on vacation last week, Congress finally figured out the Fiscal Year 2012 budget. (Only 11 weeks late! Good job, Congress!) One of the big uncertainties on… Read more
Drought: It Helps When it Rains (or Snows)
A wave of storms that has pushed New Mexico into the green zone for December has helped drought conditions here, but the latest federal Drought Monitor, out this morning, shows… Read more
