Water management in what is now New Mexico dates back to at least 800 A.D., to the Pueblo people, who used gravity-fed irrigation ditches for their crops. The acequia system, which arrived with ...

The system of zanjas — Spanish for trench or ditch — was the city’s first irrigation network that brought water from the L.A. River to people’s homes and fields. Listen • 0:53 ...

According to Nutrient Farm’s project narrative, “the Vulcan Ditch has historically provided irrigation water to the property from Canyon Creek and will continue to do so.” Nutrient Farm plans to use ...

That canal or ditch next to your back yard is not a convenient trash disposal system as a place to dump your lawn clippings, old tires, household trash, or debris from landscaping. That’s the ...

The approximately 18-mile ditch provides non-potable irrigation water to residential and agricultural recipients upvalley. Its diversion dam and headgate on the Roaring Fork River are located east ...

The system of zanjas — Spanish for trench or ditch — was the city’s first irrigation network that brought water from the L.A. River to people’s homes and fields. Listen • 0:53 ...

For well over a century, the Corbett Irrigation Ditch carried water from Tanque Verde Creek to the old Fort Lowell neighborhood, where it nourished farmland and helped to sustain a thick forest of ...

Ditch Democracy: Northern New Mexico’s Acequia Culture In the high desert of rural Taos County, a complex web of irrigation ditches has nourished the region for centuries. But adapting Western water ...

After the U.S. Department of Interior failed to uphold its part of a legal settlement, two organizations have renewed their ...