Water Quality Control Commission adopts rule banning discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters

Water Quality Control Commission adopts rule banning discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters
The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) adopted a rule that prohibits the discharge of “produced water” to New Mexico’s ground and surface waters ... Read More

SB 21: Protecting New Mexico’s Waters

SB 21: Protecting New Mexico’s Waters
An idea pushed for decades to better ensure New Mexico’s waters are protected awaits the Governor’s signature. SB 21 includes three mechanisms to better ensure our most precious resource is protected against pollution and degradation ... Read More

Seasonal contamination found in Upper Pecos River

Seasonal contamination found in Upper Pecos River
For years, northern group volunteers have been monitoring four key sites on the Pecos River from Willow Creek tributary – that flows through the old Tererro Mine reclamation property – 14 miles down to the town of Pecos. Last year ... Read More

Task Force building solutions to NM’s water crisis

Task Force building solutions to NM’s water crisis
It is no secret that New Mexico is in a water crisis. In fact, the whole Southwest is in the driest two decades it has seen in at least 1,200 years. And the hard truth is climate projections tell us ... Read More