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Deadline today for Aamodt negotiators to finish up, the water quality commission boosts water protection and NPR running week-long series on Western water issues
It's my brain that's fried from trying to make stories about LANL groundwater cleanup and the Aamodt water rights mess readable and sexy. That's one tall order on a Friday.
A group called the Santa Fe Basin Water Association is taking advantage of technology to alert residents about water transfer requests and promote protests.
The California research facility of Sandia National Laboratories partnered with an Aussie company a couple of years ago and now have a new automatic water sensor capable of detecting biotoxins, bacteria and viruses.
I goofed on my Los Luceros Hacienda story in today's paper, so note the correction. And the capacity for human ingenuity often seems to outpace a good understanding of the way nature works, a problem that doesn't seem to be changing.
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A song from my Ozark Folksongs book gives a funny look at the Rio Grande. More on new green tag "indulgences" and look for an IPCC report Friday on climate change solutions.
The U.N. Security Council discusses ramifications of climate change and New Mexico's senators push for two bills dealing with decreasing energy use and cleaning up water used in oil and gas productions.
Decades after major reservoirs began capturing the Santa Fe River's headwaters for the community water system, the idea of restoring regular flows to the usually dry streambed through town is getting renewed political attention.
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