Udall says NM needs to stretch water supplies

New Mexicans need to do more with less water, according to Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., who is introducing broad drought response and water management legislation in the U.S. Senate today. Saying the days of big water projects and large federal investment are over, Udall said in an interview Wednesday that the legislation looks instead at the full range of the federal government’s water operations in the state, and ways current laws could be tweaked and additional financial support provided to stretch the state’s limited supplies. The legislation, co-sponsored by Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., creates a framework that would allow the government to buy water from farmers to use for environmental flows, an attempt to sidestep the sort of fish-vs.-farmers Endangered Species Act battles that have broken out across the western United States. The bill also calls for a separate study of how water is managed in the San Acacia stretch of the river in Socorro County, including the possibility of “modification or possible removal” of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District’s San Acacia Diversion Dam. Environmentalists have long said that the dam makes it impossible for fish to move up and down the river, fragmenting their habitat...more

I guess we should call them The Big Government Twins.  Heinrich wants the feds to buyout livestock grazing permits and now Udall wants the feds to buy water for "environmental flows".  

Country folks are worried because Udall has an "environmental flow" every 28 days.

We don't need less water, we need less Udall.