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Climate change, compact compliance pose challenges to irrigation districts on the Rio Grande

Samantha Barncastle, general counsel of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, told state lawmakers that a settlement in an interstate compact compliance case involving the Rio Grande will not lead to an end of litigation. “The farmers will push back somewhere,” she said during a Water and Natural Resources Committee meeting Tuesday in Las Cruces. The […]