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NEWS RELEASE April 21, 2011 Contact: Dan Ware, Public Relations Coordinator 505-476-3336 daniel.ware@state.nm.us

Water Headlines for the week of April 11, 2011 - Water Headlines is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water

Albuquerque UpFront Article, Tuesday April 5, 2011

Nature Conservancy Poll Illustrates Disconnect Between People and Nature

3/1/11 article from The New Mexican

2/28/11 Associated Press article

2/28/11 Albuquerque Journal article

NM Environment Department is inviting the public to comment on the draft “total maximum daily load” (TMDL) document for the Rio Chama Watershed. The 30-day comment period opens February 23, 2011 and will close March 28, 2011. NMED's Surface Water Quality Bureau (SWQB) plans to request approval of the draft final TMDLs at the Water Quality Control Commission meeting on May 10, 2011.

According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience half of the world's smaller glaciers will disappear during this century. The study, in Nature Geoscience, found that half of the world's smallest glaciers, with a surface area less than 5 square kilometres, will disappear entirely, with possible implications for communities dependent on them for water supplies.