The cracked riverbed of the Rio Grande lays exposed in El Paso, Texas, last year. The river channel below Elephant Butte Reservoir is often empty for most of the year, as the river only runs during irrigation season. Photograph by Diana Cervantes/Source NM.
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
