Management of the Rio Grande between Elephant Butte and Amistad Reservoirs involves a number of distinct water quantity and quality challenges. These challenges arise from both "natural'' stressors, such as climate variability and geologic sources of salinization, and "human'' stressors, such as ...
King argued that a 2008 agreement between the federal government and two irrigation districts, one in Texas and the other in New Mexico, unfavorably changed the allocation of water for his state. Officials with the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, which serves farmers in southern New Mexico, sa...
Usable waterin Project Storage; 2) all water required by the Rio Grande Compact of 1938 to be delivered into Elephant Butte Reservoir; and 3) All water released from Project Storage and all inflows reaching the bed of the Rio Grande between Caballo Dam, New Mexico and Fort Quitman, Texas....
Houseboat on Elephant Butte Lake, with white deposits along shoreline – the "bathtub rings" – showing how much the lake had fallen at the time of the photo, 2008. (Photo by Terry Sharp).Click herefor an article on Houseboating. It may seem hard, long term, to have much hope for a...
In May, New Mexicomarkedthe close of the driest two-year period in the 120 years since records began to be kept. Its largest reservoir, Elephant Butte, which stores water from the Rio Grande, is effectively dry. Meanwhile, parched Texas hasfiled suitagainst New Mexico in multiple jurisdictions...
Over the course of a year, Sotelo refined the aluminum watercraft, a 3-foot-by-3-foot circular craft that rests on a thick black inner tube, testing it in various environments like New Mexico's Grindstone and Elephant Butte lakes.
Elephant Butte Irrigation District (EBID) $1.5 Million EBID, State of New Mexico. New Mexico State University Conserve Rio Grande Project Water by utilizing storm water availability 15 GREYWATER REUSE: El Paso County Rogelio Sanchez State Prison Texas Dept of Corrections, Texas A&M Univ...
to Texas and Mexico. In response, the Office of the State Engineer (OSE) has launched Active Water Resource Management (AWRM), of which one component is water marketing. In this paper, we propose an institutional framework for a water market in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District (EBID)...
Degrading the quality and quantity of the main groundwater aquifers in the study area raised the need for alternative water sources like the Rio Grande. This study evaluated the hydrochemistry and management options to convey water from the main dam on the Rio Grande, Elephant Butte Dam, to El...
California (1963) as the first such legislative apportionment.;The 1904 agreement was later incorporated into broader accords encompassing all Rio Grande water users in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas (above Fort Quitman), including those upstream from Elephant Butte Dam. The first new agreement ...