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Posted inEnvironment & Conservation, Quick Reads

Irrigators in the Lower Rio Grande corridor could be paid not to water their fields

The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission is hosting a series of events to provide irrigators with property in the Lower Rio Grande corridor with information about a groundwater conservation program. The program provides grants to compensate irrigators to voluntarily not irrigate previously irrigated land for two years. The application period opens on Monday and goes […]