Winter 2021 - THE RIO GRANDE

But more than the tangible details, the river is Sandoval is not alone in describing the river as the stuff of legends and the backbone of life in an unwell. [...] the past, and the history of the river and the laws you don’t know exactly what the land is, how your region Photo by Herman surrounding it shaped today the same way the river was created, how the very soil that farmers rely on was Ramsden. [...] So the irrigation district calls the watermaster environmental flows.” and says four days from now, and for five days, we’re With the population along the Rio Grande going to be pumping 300 cubic feet per second out of continuing to grow and more droughts on the the Rio Grande.” horizon, Rubinstein said that talking about the The Rio Grande serves The watermaster then combines every irrigation his. [...] Carlos Rubinstein — past chairman of the Texas The year 2020 was one where the water came due Water Development Board and past commis- and Mexico had to delivery on its five-year water sioner and Rio Grande Watermaster for the Texas quota from the Rio Grande to the U. [...] markers between the two countries, the Treaty “Treating the United States as the first obligation of Guadalupe-Hidalgo said nothing about water in the allocation of the water, that was our main goal.