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Acequia Culture
Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest
This book is available to read until 31st December, 2025
- 280 pages
- English
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About this book
Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, are acequias, or community irrigation ditches, a wise and efficient use of water in the arid Southwest? José Rivera presents the contemporary case for the value of acequias and the communities they nurture in the river valleys of southern Colorado and New Mexico.
Recognizing that water is the lifeblood of the community, Rivera delineates an acequia culture based on a reciprocal relationship between irrigation and community. The acequia experience grows out of a conservation ethic and a tradition of sharing that should be recognized and preserved in an age of increasing competition for scarce water resources.
A worthwhile contribution to the future management of water resources.--Professor Michael C. Meyer
Recognizing that water is the lifeblood of the community, Rivera delineates an acequia culture based on a reciprocal relationship between irrigation and community. The acequia experience grows out of a conservation ethic and a tradition of sharing that should be recognized and preserved in an age of increasing competition for scarce water resources.
A worthwhile contribution to the future management of water resources.--Professor Michael C. Meyer
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Documents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Irrigation Communities on the Rio Grande
- Chapter Two: Evolution of the Acequia Institution
- Chapter Three: Acequia Governance and Administration
- Chapter Four: Water Democracies: The Acequia Papers
- Chapter Five: Contemporary Status of Acequias: Development vs. Sustainability
- Chapter Six: The Future of the Acequia Institution: State Policies and Acequia Action Strategies
- Notes
- Acequia Glossary
- Selected Readings
- Index