AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Water fight pits man against fish.
Byline: Judith Graham
LOS LUNAS, N.M. _ The Rio Grande has run dry here. Walk down a slope lined with cottonwood trees, through a field of young green willows, and at last the parched riverbed appears, brown and cracked under a blazing sun.
Years of severe drought have sucked precious water from the Rio Grande River, lifeblood of New Mexico, as have years of heavy use by farmers who irrigate their fields with its flows.
Now these farmers and Albuquerque, their urban neighbor, are fighting over the future of a 160-mile New Mexico stretch of the Rio Grande in one of the most intense water wars in the country. The battle _ involving a 3-inch fish ...
- Study Identifies PCBs in Rio Grande in Northern New Mexico.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 15, 2004 700+ words
...the industrial pollutant in the Rio Grande and various tributaries in Northern New Mexico, leading state officials to...consumption of fish taken out of the Rio Grande. The New Mexico Environment Department and Los...
- MATT Group Signs Long-Term Strategic Alliance Agreement With Rio Grande Media...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 4, 1999 700+ words
...Willison, president, Rio Grande Technology Inc. "The film industry in New Mexico is growing and extremely...the Matthews Group, Rio Grande and the New Mexico Film community...to be involved with Rio Grande Media Technology Inc...
- New Mexico Regulation Commission Unanimously Approves California Water Service...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 12, 2002 700+ words
...Corporation (Rio Grande), which serves...Valencia County, New Mexico, located 30...operation of Rio Grande, will be retained by New Mexico Water Service...he said. New Mexico Water Service...employed by Rio Grande Utility Corporation...
- Hispanic Culture Celebrated on Postal Service's New Mexico Rio Grande Blanket...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 30, 2005 700+ words
...culture of Northern New Mexico was celebrated today...Service issued the New Mexico Rio Grande Blankets commemorative...chosen to recognize New Mexico's rich cultural heritage...country through the Rio Grande Blanket commemorative...
- Distribution and status of Arkansas River shiner Notropis girardi and Rio...
- Magazine article from: The Texas Journal of Science Hoagstrom, Christopher W. Brooks, James E. February 1, 2005 700+ words
...girardi and native Rio Grande shiner Notropis...the Pecos River, New Mexico, between Fort...Ortenburger and Rio Grande shiner Notropis...endemic to the Rio Grande drainage (Gilbert...the Pecos River, New Mexico because N. girardi...
- New Mexico Water Service Company Completes Acquisition of Rio Grande Utility...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 1, 2002 700+ words
...and employees," he said. All Rio Grande employees will be offered positions at New Mexico Water Service Company. New Mexico...Company) purchased the assets of Rio Grande, which include five active water...
- It's a grande old gorge. Want a thrill? Go raft New Mexico's Rio Grande.
- Magazine article from: Sunset Jaffe, Matthew July 1, 1998 700+ words
The Rio Grande Gorge doesn't announce...foot-deep rift in the New Mexico earth. The first clues...You've reached the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, said to...the 60-mile stretch of Rio Grande (from the Colorado border...
- New Mexico's Rio Grande Studios, in association with the city of Rio Rancho,...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety August 8, 2005 700+ words
New Mexico's Rio Grande Studios, in association with the city of Rio Rancho, will expand...feet of covered space. Site has a 2006 planned completion date. Rio Grande also will offer a wireless satellite trailer providing users 11 MB...
