AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton said the powerful oral arguments his office presented today before the U.S. Supreme Court should result in a favorable decision for Texas in its years-long dispute with New Mexico over water rights to the Rio Grande River. New Mexico’s increasing water use and groundwater pumping below Elephant Butte Reservoir deprives Texas of water apportioned to it under the 1938 Rio Grande Compact. “New Mexico’s illegal actions in taking Rio […]
