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Jul. 31—The New Mexico Environment Department sent a message this week to almost half the state's public water systems: Tougher enforcement of drinking water quality is coming. The agency, which ...
Apr. 30—Southern New Mexico's federal representative is trying to ensure the water in Doña Ana County is safe for people to drink by pushing for more water testing and community meetings. For ...
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is losing millions of gallons of water a year because of aging lines it cannot afford to fix. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is losing millions of gallons of ...
In March 2022, New Mexico Environment Department was announced to receive modest bumps to their budgets from the state's general fund. [7] The agency has 550 employees throughout our main offices in Santa Fe and 22 district offices state-wide.
In early US history, drinking water quality in the country was managed by individual drinking water utilities and at the state and local level. In 1914 the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) published a set of drinking water standards, pursuant to existing federal authority to regulate interstate commerce , and in response to the 1893 Interstate ...
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the primary federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public. [3] Pursuant to the act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to set standards for drinking water quality and oversee all states, localities, and water suppliers that implement the standards.
The New Mexico Administrative Code sets an unenforceable guideline of 1.5 picocuries of plutonium per liter of water in the Rio Grande, and water samples from the early 2010s near the Buckman ...
The San Juan–Chama Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation interbasin water transfer project located in the states of New Mexico and Colorado in the United States.The project consists of a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River – a tributary of the Colorado River – to supplement water resources in the Rio Grande watershed.