A New Mexico town is running dry. An immigration detention center is its biggest water customer. ^30.6%

Grist - By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News - 7/4/2026, 1:00 PM

Negativity Bias 23.5% - Appeal to Authority 19.1% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 18.2%

Following years of drought, the wells in Estancia, New Mexico, are running dry. After declaring a water emergency last week, the small town in Torrance County is hauling in water to fill its pipes. Estancia has also reduced water sales to the Torrance County Detention Facility, or TCDF, a federal immigration detention center run by the... more