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Laura Paskus

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Pilot project seeks to make a splash Original

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By Laura Paskus
| Source New Mexico
In sandals, with his camera in a dry bag around his neck, Paul Tashjian crosses the Rio Grande north of Albuquerque. On a Monday afternoon in mid-June, the river’s muddy waters slide past the Pueblo of Sandia and the Village of Corrales at about 40 cubic feet per second — four percent of the normal flow for this time of year. Barely getting his shins wet, Tashjian, a hydrologist, heads to what’s called an outfall on the east side of the river.
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Letting a River Act Like a River

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By Laura Paskus
| Reasons to be Cheerful Verified
Waterline is an ongoing series that explores the solutions making rivers, waterways and ocean food chains healthier. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. This story was originally published by New Mexico Rivers Rising, an independent project dedicated to covering New Mexico’s waterways and wetlands and the challenges they face in a warming world. For river ecosystems to survive dry times, they need their floods — and big, messy floodplains.
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Climate change, overuse send the Middle Rio Grande into ‘dire’ situation

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By Laura Paskus
| KSFR-FM (Santa Fe, NM) Verified
Last summer, the Middle Rio Grande through Albuquerque dried for about 50 days. This year, the river will dry again — as early as May. Irrigation season will be short, fire danger will be high and Albuquerque’s largest drinking water utility will again switch from diverting river water to relying exclusively on groundwater. Long-term data reveals clear warming and drying trends, said Jason Casuga, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District’s chief engineer and CEO.
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