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Dossier · Who's Who
Tanya Trujillo
New Mexico's Deputy State Engineer, who briefed the Legislature's interim Water and Natural Resources Committee on Project Jupiter's water on October 29, 2025.
At a glance
- Current roles
- Deputy State Engineer, NM Office of the State Engineer (OSE)
- New Mexico's representative to the Upper Colorado River Commission
- Earlier role
- Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Category
- Appointed official
- Jurisdiction
- State of New Mexico
- Verification
- confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
- In the record
- 1 sources · 0 connections · 1 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP182
Key facts
- 2025-10-29Briefed the interim Water and Natural Resources Committee in Artesia on October 29, 2025, six days after the emergency well was authorized.[1]
- Told members that the development of a new data center “should align with the objectives outlined in the state's 50-year strategic water action plan.”[1]
The record
Deputy State Engineer of New Mexico, and the state's representative to the Upper Colorado River Commission. She briefed the Legislature's Water and Natural Resources Committee on October 29, 2025 — ten months before the hearing fight — telling members that the development of a new data center "should align with the objectives outlined in the state's 50-year strategic water action plan."
Formerly Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the Department of the Interior.
In the timeline · 1
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