When you sell less water, you make less money selling water. It’s the modern water agency dilemma: Albuquerque’s municipal water agency may need another rate increase to dig out of a growing financial hole left by the community’s water conservation success, agency officials acknowledged in a report this week to their board.

I wrote a story in this morning’s newspaper about New Mexico’s efforts to revive its moribund state water planning process: Ten years after New Mexico officials last took a stab at developing a state water plan, they are reviving their effort to calculate the gaps between New Mexico’s finite water supplies and the needs of …

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Reed Benson, a University of New Mexico law professor whose patient explanations and deep writing have been extraordinarily helpful to my understand of things like the doctrine of prior appropriation and the Endangered Species Act, has joined the blogoworld: It has come to my attention … that a lot of people do not read law …

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