- NMSU receives NSF grant to study link between acequia hydrology, culture, ecosystem
New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to provide new insights into the relationships between traditional water management systems, communities and landscapes.
- Water Scarcity in New Mexico
8.5.11 (LAS CRUCES) – According to the U.S. Climactic Data Center the first six months of 2011 was the driest period on record for New Mexico and Texas. In this report we look at how the drought is affecting the region. We’ll also tell you about steps being taken to monitor and prepare for what some say will be a future with more and more area water scarcity dilemmas. KRWG’s Jared Andersen reports.
- Surface Water – Groundwater Interactions in Irrigated Floodplains in Northern New Mexico
Along irrigated cropland corridors between irrigation ditches and rivers, potential water quantity and water quality benefits of ditch seepage and irrigation deep percolation may derive from the close interaction between surface water and shallow groundwater.
- The Art of Mayordomia
New Mexico Acequia Association Mayordomo Project
- Water worries in Colorado’s San Luis Valley come to surface
The cost of running pivot-point sprinklers in the San Luis Valley likely will increase this spring under a new agreement designed to restore underground aquifers. By May, center-pivot farmers must activate a plan to reduce the water pulled from the aquifer by about 30,000 acre-feet a year. (Bruce Finley, The Denver Post)
Participant Links
- NMSU ACES-New Mexico State University College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences
- UNM-University of New Mexico
- UNM Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
- NMT-New Mexico Tech
- UdeC-Universidad de Concepcion
- Sandia National Laboratories
- New Mexico EPSCoR
- NMAA-New Mexico Acequia Association
- UI-University of Idaho
- UNR CABNR-University of Nevada, Reno College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, & Natural Resources
- Cultural Energy
Other Links
- 2013 UCOWR-NIWR Annual Conference “Sustaining Water Resources and Ecological Function in Changing Environments” June 11-13, 2013, Lake Tahoe, CA
- 2013 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference “Agricultural Hydrology and Water Quality II” March 25-27, 2013, St. Louis, MO
- 2013 AWRA Summer Specialty Conference “Environmental Flows” June 24-25, 2013 ,Hartford, CT, Call for Abstracts Deadline: February 8, 2013
- 2013 AWRA Summer Specialty Conference “Healthy Forests=Healthy Waters” June 27-28, 2013, Hartford, CT, Call for Abstracts Deadline: February 8, 2013
- 2013 International Specialty Conference: AWRA and Beijing Hydraulic Engineering Society “Water for Mega Cities – Challenges and Solutions” September 16-18, 2013, Beijing, China, Call for Abstracts Deadline: March 11, 2013
- 2013 AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference, November 4-7, 2013, Portland, OR, Call for Special Session Proposals Deadline: January 21, 2013
- NMSU-Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde
- NMSU-Water Task Force
- NM WRRI-New Mexico Water Resource Research Institute
- TVAA-Taos Valley Acequia Association
- The Center for Applied Spatial Ecology (CASE)
- Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR)
- American Water Resources Association (AWRA)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)