The release of water from Caballo Dam drew hundreds downriver on Saturday, May 31 to celebrate the release to area parks.

Overuse and climate change are rapidly depleting groundwater throughout the region, but aquifers are not part of the ...

As the Colorado River shrinks due to drought and climate change, the negotiators must decide who will take less water — and they need to do so in the next few months.

Plaintiffs pledged to appeal the New Mexico Court of Appeals’ dismissal today of a landmark lawsuit over the state’s failure to uphold its constitutional duty to protect public health and the ...

The Rio Grande Basin is also critical to agriculture ... future water supplies as possible," the letter read. Water in Southern New Mexico: Sunland Park and Santa Teresa residents file suit ...

A task force appointed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has been directed to come up with a plan by July 31 to deal with New Mexico's drought crisis. The governor recently declared ...

Basinwide, researchers found, groundwater storage has fallen by 27.8 million acre-feet since 2003 — enough water to fill an ...

In 2023, New Mexico produced a record high of 667 million barrels of crude oil, mostly in the Permian Basin. The record output has an unpleasant side effect: billions of barrels of produced water ...