An unruly summer of 2013 (updated)
It's been a busy year and I have had little time to update, much less maintain, this little water blog on most-things-New Mexico-but-not-all. In the 8 months, much has changed in terms of lawsuits, roadblocks in the large adjudication cases in the state of New Mexico (like the Lower Rio Grande, aka the large dry colon serving sand, sediment, and scarcely much water into Texas). And yet, other aspects seem hauntingly familiar of 2012: fires, and the post-fire flooding across regions of Colorado and New Mexico. Let's lead with the larger context , drought and record or near-record low levels in the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. And this is Forbes magazine, mind you, talking about how to responsibly 'price' water in the Southwest. The Lower Rio Grande adjudication is dragging one, lurching, even as the water itself (or "wet water" as engineers hilariously call it) is drying up. While some of the stream system issues are starting to look vaguely settled ...
