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On Monday April 8, 2013, Josh Mann, of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and UNM School of Law alumnus, presented a session entitled “The Middle Rio Grande ESA Consultation Overview.”
The talk covered the next steps in the MRG Endangered Species Act consultation and related water management planning.
On January 8, 2013, Texas sued New Mexico and Colorado in the U.S. Supreme Court, alleging violations of the 1938 Rio Grande Compact. The Supreme Court case number is 22O141 ORG and the docket may be accessed at U.S. Supreme Court Docket. Documents filed in the case are found at the Utton Center’s New Mexico’s Lower Rio Grande page or Supreme Court of the United States blog – SCOTUS blog.
Darcy Bushnell of the Utton Center has prepared a report on the litigation entitled Texas v New Mexico and Colorado. [This link should be live to the attached PDF article.]
The Utton Center's Laura Paskus has prepared a report on the litigation entitled "Compact Complications: Water Wars between Texas and New Mexico Are Nothing New, but the Times Are Changing."
