Horacio Palacios wasn’t looking to get into the water world right out of high school.
“It kind of fell in my lap,” recalls Palacios, a water production operator with 15 years’ experience at Las Cruces Utilities. The payoff was a satisfying career in which he has made his mark. He was named 2022 Outstanding Operator of the Year by the New Mexico Water and Wastewater Association.Palacios was born in Phoenix; his family then moved about 400 miles east to Las Cruces. “I pretty much grew up here and have stayed in Las Cruces my whole life,” he says. “My family is
