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Jerry Redfern is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, covering environment, health and human rights, primarily in the developing world. He is coauthor, with Karen Coates, of the award-winning book “Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos”. You can follow him on Instagram @jerryredfern, where you can see pictures of the Rio Grande near his home in New Mexico.
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Conservationists in the Southwest are rushing to save endangered Rio Grande silvery minnows stranded in sections of the river that have run dry.
From a partnership with Mexico to treating brackish groundwater, Arizona is exploring opportunities to incorporate desalinated water into its long-term water supply planning.
Texas and New Mexico are squaring off over water rights in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, but the issues at the heart of the disagreement were settled in 2008.
A proposed pipeline would funnel Lake Powell water 140 miles to a growing region of Utah, but opponents question if imported water for the beleaguered Colorado is the best way to meet demand.
Monitoring a plume of contaminants in groundwater in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has gotten more difficult as the water level in the aquifer has risen quickly over the past few years.
Climate change is causing water managers to think long term about their resources. Several western agencies are planning a century in advance, but that’s not without its headaches.
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority in New Mexico doesn’t own the land where its water originates, but it just donated $1 million to help protect it.
Lots of rain and snow this year bode well for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow and that’s good news for the whole river and the riparian ecosystem.
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