Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Conservation

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2005-08-02 — New Mexico Water Planning Assistance Act: cross-connection with new-mexico-water-planning: Both target New Mexico Rio Grande basin water management; the planning bill would fund the hydrologic models and data that inform conservation programs in the lower Rio Grande. (novelty: 2)
2005-04-19 — Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2005: S. 1522 (109th Congress, 2005) — Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources Conservation and Improvement Act of 2005 would have authorized the Bureau of Reclamation to add further water-conservation projects (canal lining/burial, pump and meter upgrades) in specified South Texas counties; introduced in Senate, reached subcommittee hearings, did not advance. (novelty: 2)