Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Chair Stephanie Russo Baca, who raises livestock in Los Chavez, N.M., expressed support for the proposed changes, adding that greater flexibility in water ...

Without any more rain, the Rio Grande may dry up in the Albuquerque area. Farmers in New Mexico, who rely on the river, were given notice to anticipate changes to water availability.

Projects aimed at addressing drought in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin are getting nearly $25 million in federal funding, according to a recent announcement from the Bureau of Reclamation.

The Rio Grande Basin is also critical to agriculture, industry and the environment, providing irrigation water for an estimated 1.8 million acres of crop and pasture land, supporting a growing ...

The small green channel of the Rio Grande between El Paso County and Juárez, Mexico. The river was channelized in the 20th century to prevent flooding and define the international border.

By the turn of the 20th century, disputes over Rio Grande water were brewing between farmers in southern New Mexico’s Mesilla Valley and those in El Paso and neighboring Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.

FAR WEST TEXAS—The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso. The New York Times described the crash of crumbling houses and the “cries of ...

The neighboring countries have tussled over the 1944 treaty, which was designed to allocate shared water resources. Mexico is required to send 1.75 million acre-feet of water from the Rio Grande ...

It requires Mexico to deliver water from its tributaries in Chihuahua to the Rio Grande, and stipulates that those deliveries must be at least 350,000 acre-feet per year on average over a five ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico and the United States said Monday they had reached an agreement that involves Mexico immediately sending more water from their shared Rio Grande basin to Texas farmers after ...