New Mexico Prevails Over Texas in Supreme Court Water Clash (3)

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with New Mexico on Monday in a long-running dispute over how the state shares water with its downstream neighbor Texas—the latest in what’s expected to be a surge of interstate water conflicts on the high court’s docket.

The justices rejected Texas’s arguments that New Mexico got too much credit for Pecos River water deliveries to Texas during a period of heavy rains and flooding from a major storm in 2014. Legal scholars expect more interstate water wars to land on the docket as climate change stresses water supplies, and old agreements prove ill-equipped to address ...