Given the tension from Texas’s legal complaints against New Mexico regarding the impact of New Mexico groundwater pumping on Texas Rio Grande supply (see Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado), this El Paso Water Utilities pump house feels to some like a middle finger raised in New Mexico’s direction. It’s just inside the Texas border, atop the Mesilla Bolson – the very aquifer the Texas lawyers are claiming New Mexico pumpers are hitting too hard:

Texas pumps, near Las Cruces, March 2013, by John Fleck