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Texas Takes Water Spat With New Mexico To Supreme Court

By Mónica Ortiz Uribe / Senior Field Correspondent
Published January 9, 2013 at 12:58 PM PST
This story was published more than 11 years ago.
Texas Takes Water Spat With New Mexico To Supreme Court
The state of Texas wants the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a major water dispute with neighboring New Mexico.

The state of Texas wants the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a major water dispute with neighboring New Mexico.

Texas claims New Mexico is violating a 1938 agreement by siphoning an excess amount of water from the Rio Grande. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality filed a complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The complaint states the water loss is impacting river flow and hurting farmers in Texas. Earlier, New Mexico filed it's own lawsuit against the Bureau of Reclamation that says it should be entitled to more water.

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New Mexico Attorney General Gary King called the Texas suit 'extortion' in a written statement.

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Mónica Ortiz Uribe
Senior Field Correspondent Mónica Ortiz Uribe (Las Cruces) is a native of El Paso, Texas, where she recently worked as a freelance reporter. Her work has aired on NPR, Public Radio International and Radio Bilingue. Most of her stories examined the effects of drug-related violence across the border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in history.
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