Texas Water Rights or New Mexico Water Rights
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 12-01-2013
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The State of New Mexico is being sued by Texas. It seems as though New Mexico is holding to much of the Texas water supply according to Texas. Texas farmers say they do not get enough water flow down the Rio Grande. New Mexico Farmers say the same thing about them not getting enough water. It makes me wonder. If you look at the Elephant Butte Reservoir and it is nearly empty, how we can be holding to much? Where do the rights of New Mexico end and the rights for Texas start? I guess that is what the Supreme Court will have to determine. The farmers along the Rio Grande in New Mexico feel that they are not getting their fair share and the Texas farmers in the same valley claim New Mexico is hogging it all. I can verify that most of it is gone. I guess when the Texans drive by the Butte they say, “why it still has some water in it” and it does have a smidgen left for the few catfish and bass left there….Must we turn every drop loose? T or C has depended on the sports activity on the Butte every year…Must that go away…I can certainly understand the farmers in Texas wanting their fair share but a some point you have to understand that half of nothing is nothing. Every city and village along the Rio Grande, New Mexico and Texas and Mexico, depend on that river bringing in some water….If we don’t get some snow melt this year and some rain, I fear it will nearly dry up. The Supreme Court has its work cut out in making a fair decision on this one. One other wrinkle that has me wondering is the wells down the Rio Grande Valley and the water pulled from those wells is if those water wells pulls resupply from the Rio Grande also. A decision “ain’t” gonna be easy for the folks on the Supreme Court. Good luck to you……I guess at some point all us folks gonna have to ask the Lord to open up the Heavens again and let it rain……a lot….Maybe not 40 days and nights, but a lot.. Wonder if He will hear us the way some of us been acting?….Pete
“Water,water nowhere, and none to drink.” For New Mexico, I must paraphrase just a little. In my view, the real problem is not to little water, but it is too many people using to much for their modern indoor pumbing homes with their “swamp coolers”. That’s only my opinion, which don’t amount too much. Other parts of the country are receiving too much. Perhaps these parts have too few people using too little.
Not enough water “revenues” and too much water “spending” is what you are saying, huh? Pete
That may be a better way to put it than the misquote from Herman Melville. At least, it puts it in modern terms of too much “spending” and too little “revenue”. President Obama should be happy. New Mexico (and Texas) can solve its problems by just spending more. Gad! I was agreeing with the President all the time, and I didn’t even know it. I guess I’ve already fallen under the spell of “Holy Martin” Day.