Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQjournal: Navajo Water Deal Benefits Everyone
... under the mountains of the Continental Divide in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado to divert 100,000 acre-feet a year from the San Juan River Basin into the Rio Grande. Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other smaller communities have designed projects to utilize this water in their drinking water systems ...
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ABQjournal: Navajo Water Deal Isn't a 'Giveaway'
... the author to demonstrate the accuracy of his assertions. The premise of Sullivan's article is that "giving away" 56 percent of San Juan River Basin flows to the Navajo Nation threatens the water supplies of 1.8 million New Mexicans statewide. He cries "there is a crisis on the San Juan that will ...
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ABQjournal: Turning Menace into Miracle
... part of New Mexico a living history lesson. Interwoven technologies In my part of the state, the first substantial irrigation in the Pecos River Basin can be traced to the Spanish settlers around 1600. This system flourished during the system of land grant colonization and continued under later ...
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ABQjournal: Judge Finds Trust Lands Don't Come With Water Rights
... Lyons said no decision had been made. Lyons, whose argument for trust land water came in an ongoing adjudication of water rights in the San Juan River Basin, had claimed federal reserved water rights that typically were applied to Indian land or to federal land. The Indian land is held in trust ...
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ABQjournal: Feds, N.M. to Work on Water Deal
... 20 years, with the state paying about $65 million. It would give the Navajo Nation rights to about 56 percent of the projected water in the San Juan River Basin available for use in New Mexico. More than 70,000 people live without running water on the Navajo Nation, the country's largest American ...
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ABQJOURNAL: Navajo Water Dispute Closer To Resolution
... 20 years, with the state paying about $65 million. It would give the Navajo Nation rights to about 56 percent of the projected water in the San Juan River Basin available for use in New Mexico. More than 70,000 people live without running water on the Navajo Nation, the country's largest American ...
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ABQjournal: Stormy Weather May Be on Way
... left out of the action, according to Charlie Liles, head of the National Weather Service's Albuquerque office. Current snowpack in the Gila River Basin, in southwestern New Mexico, is just half of normal, according to the federal government's Natural Resources Conservation Service, which maintains ...
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ABQJOURNAL: KNME Program Focuses on Navajo Water Rights
... experts and policymakers. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., talks about legislation that would settle the tribe's water rights claims in the San Juan River Basin. The state of New Mexico and the tribe have signed a settlement agreement that resolves the tribe's water claims in the basin. But before ...
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