My head’s been spinning trying to follow discussions over California’s pending water legislation. Emily Green has helpfully rounded it all up in one spot: “Potential cost? $12bn. Who will it affect? Every Californian who needs water.”
George Johnson on Santa Fe’s water budget: “For all its aspirations to be different, Santa Fe is still guided by a rather ordinary assumption: that the primary use for water is to accommodate more development.”
Rosalie Rayburn on the next steps toward New Mexico’s first desal project. Note the echo of George’s theme here re the “d” word: “Desalination tests will begin next week on a Rio Puerco water source that Sandoval County officials believe will be critical to future development”
