Posts Tagged ‘acequias’
Acequia Communities Adjust Centuries-Old Water Traditions Under COVID-19
May 29, 2020 – With social distancing orders in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus in New Mexico, acequia communities have modified springtime traditions—like convening to clean the irrigation canals and blessing the waters passing onto fields, gardens, and orchards—that have endured for centuries. In mid-May, instead of gathering for blessings, tossing…
Read MoreOur Land: Urban Flood Control
May 10, 2019 – On this month’s episode of Our Land, we visit with engineers from the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority. AMAFCA was created in 1963 to protect life and property, and for decades it moved water as quickly as possible out of the city and into the Rio Grande. Since the 1980s,…
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