NM WRRI Hosts Workshop on Desalination Efforts in the Mesilla Basin

NM WRRI Hosts Workshop on Desalination Efforts in the Mesilla Basin by Avery Olshefski, NM WRRI Program Coordinator New Mexico State University and the Bureau of Reclamation are in the second year of a five-year cooperative agreement that seeks to increase scientific knowledge and research expertise in the area of characterization, treatment, and use of alternative waters in New Mexico and the western U.S. The agreement is currently supporting nine NMSU research projects involving impaired water. The agreement also supports an annual community learning meeting with the goal of reaching out to the broader community potentially impacted by the research in order to elicit stakeholder input.