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Water is a precious and scarce commodity in Santa Fe. The city's Sangre de Cristo Water Co., 801 W. San Mateo Road, 954-7199, provides free water-conservation classes designed to reduce home water use and lower water bills. It also offers the following suggestions for further conservation:
Burton McKenzie owns a 100-tree orchard in Tomé, N.M., with something a whole lot more valuable than the fruit it produces: his six acres have senior irrigation-water rights in the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District.
Developers who want to build about 500 homes near the traditional village of La Cienega say they have enough water rights to supply about 120 homes from wells. Still, they say it would be best to work out a deal under which the Santa Fe County utility system would serve the project, according to investor David Schutz, a state transportation commissioner.
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Robert Gomez, director of Taos Pueblo's Environmental Department, discusses issues relating to the Pueblo and their use and maintenance of the Rio Grande river.
The winter of 2006 was New Mexico's second driest in 112 years, and stream flows are at or near 30-year record lows in north-central New Mexico. Both the governor and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have declared most of the state a disaster area because of the ongoing drought.
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In this clip, Paula Garcia, executive director of the New Mexico Acequia Assocation, discusses th acequia tradition, its current struggles for keeping water rights, and the resurgence of northern New Mexico agriculture.
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In this video, Claudia Borchert (Santa Fe Water Division, Water Project Coordinator) and Rick Carpenter (City of Santa Fe, Sangre de Cristo Water Division, Water Projects Coordinator) discuss water management for the city of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County. Click on the "full story" link for the video clip.
Original Publication Date: 8/15/2004 in The New Mexican
State Engineer John D'Antonio says New Mexico's legal and administrative systems for managing water are broken. And while he's trying to do something about it, he's running into stiff opposition.
Originally Publicaiton Date: 8/15/2004 in The New Mexican
To many long-time observers of New Mexico's water management, much of the state's ongoing water crisis comes down to a lack of political guts. We don't need new laws or institutions, they say; we simply need to start using the ones we've got.
Original Publication Date: 8/15/2004 in the New Mexican
New Mexico and Colorado have essentially the same water laws and even share a few of the same rivers. But when it comes to managing their water resources, the two states are a world apart.
Video: Rio Grande River Voices 
