Water Matters!
Water Matters! is a hallmark publication of the Utton Center that provides authoritative and independent information on water policy and legal issues for New Mexico. This publication, which was last updated in 2015, was historically prepared for the New Mexico Legislature and is widely used by policymakers, educators and student, and the public. Topics covered include water legislation, administration, adjudications, planning, and water quality.
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Individual Articles:
Water Law and Policy
- Basic Water Law Concepts (2014)
- New Mexico Water Law Capsules (2014)
- Adjudications (2014)
- Acequias (2013)
- American Indian Water Rights (2013)
- Groundwater (2013)
- State and Regional Water Planning (2013)
- Water Conservation (2014)
- Drought (2014)
- Priority Administration (2014)
- Active Water Resource Management (2014)
- Domestic Wells (2014)
- Community Water Systems (2013)
- Deep Water Regulation (2013)
- Land Use and Water Supply (2010)
- Water Marketing (2013)
- Water for New Mexico Rivers (2014)
- Water Quality Regulation (2013)
- Inter-basin Water Transfers (2014)
Cases, Projects, Settlements and Studies
- New Mexico's Major Reservoirs: An Overview (2011)
- Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2014)
- The Nambé, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, and Tesuque Pueblos Settlement (2014)
- Taos Pueblo Water Rights Settlement (2014)
- Water Litigation in the Lower Rio Grande (2013)
- Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System (2013)
- The Rio Grande as an International River (2013)
- Salt Basin (2014)
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