Waters less unruly than unsettled
Back in the game for blogging! I had to take some time off to finish up the book on water rights and adjudications in New Mexico and that is now submitted to a press to be named later (don't want to count the chickens before...yeah). The book examines what we gain by tracking what water rights adjudications did to neighborly relations, in uncovering old wounds, and producing new water anxieties across the state. I'll be teasing this out over the next year or two as the book is produced and then released.
For me, it's a relief that the first submission version is done and in. It almost did me in! There is something anti-climactic about working in the field, archives, and in the literature of water for 10 years and simply hitting the "send" button on e-mail to submit. I still remember having to send physical (and multiple) copies on paper for the first book.
It's been a warm-ish winter and an unstable spring, with some unpredictable late winter-like storms on the Front Range this year. This summer may be a little milder, but it is too soon to tell. No set pattern to the ENSO, but the good news overall is that we got plenty of snow in high country. Water should be available down here in the "flatlands" at 6000 feet.
See you down the road, reporting more on water issues. The big news recently, at least for New Mexico's water picture, is that the Santolina Development question outside Albuquerque is going to be re-examined. That's important considering that perhaps the last important area that will be adjudicated for water rights is the Middle Rio Grande. New Mexico spent over a century counting all the small water in watersheds not called the Rio Grande, but the implications of adding these massive suburban bulges are increasingly clear to water experts and those living in the valley.
For me, it's a relief that the first submission version is done and in. It almost did me in! There is something anti-climactic about working in the field, archives, and in the literature of water for 10 years and simply hitting the "send" button on e-mail to submit. I still remember having to send physical (and multiple) copies on paper for the first book.
It's been a warm-ish winter and an unstable spring, with some unpredictable late winter-like storms on the Front Range this year. This summer may be a little milder, but it is too soon to tell. No set pattern to the ENSO, but the good news overall is that we got plenty of snow in high country. Water should be available down here in the "flatlands" at 6000 feet.
See you down the road, reporting more on water issues. The big news recently, at least for New Mexico's water picture, is that the Santolina Development question outside Albuquerque is going to be re-examined. That's important considering that perhaps the last important area that will be adjudicated for water rights is the Middle Rio Grande. New Mexico spent over a century counting all the small water in watersheds not called the Rio Grande, but the implications of adding these massive suburban bulges are increasingly clear to water experts and those living in the valley.
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