Stuff you need to know, 4.12.23

“Diverting the Rio Grande into a grown-over, decades-old canal could cut New Mexico’s water debt”
by Elizabeth Miller, New Mexico In Depth
April 11, 2023

The canal was built in an obscure chapter in New Mexico’s water history that harkens to the 1950s, when New Mexico faced a growing water debt to Texas and needed to move water downstream more efficiently. The best way, it was determined, was to route the water away from the riverbed into a 70-mile, rock-lined, narrow channel that would speed it downstream. Now the idea of strategically using the canal again is gaining traction.

Click on the above link to read this free-access article.

“Colorado River cities and farms face ‘dire’ tradeoffs with new federal review”
by Joshua Partlow, The Washington Post
April 11, 2023

The federal review lays out the painful choices facing the American West after a two-decade drought and chronic overuse have left the water supply for tens of millions of people, including New Mexicans, dangerously diminished.

Click on the above link to read this gifted-access article.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

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.

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