To our leaders: Water issues can’t wait
Op-ed by Ladona Clayton, Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug 10, 2024
We’ve all heard the saying “water is life, or in Spanish, “agua es la vida.” But have you ever thought to ask this essential question: What are we doing to protect it?
As New Mexico struggles through another summer of fire and flooding, we find ourselves wondering when our elected officials will answer that question and start treating the water crisis with the seriousness it deserves.
We are a group of individuals from across the state — from Northern New Mexico to the frontera down south, from ancestral homelands of Haak’u (Acoma) to the Bootheel and over to the Eastern plains — with a direct and special relationship with water.