Archive of entries posted on April 2011

Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dry Year on the Rio Grande

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From Thursday’s newspaper (sub/ad req), a look at what is increasingly looking to be a very dry year on the Rio Grande, which has become entangled in a Byzantine governance issue involving allocation and distribution of Lower Rio Grande water: In recent years, dry conditions have made managing the river more difficult. Eight out of …

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River Beat: Rethinking the Law of the River

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John McChesney, former NPR guy now at Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, has jumped into the Law of the River discussion with a look at Doug Kenney’s work on rethinking the Law of the River: Kenney doesn’t believe the law of the river needs to be tossed out, but he says it …

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