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The Rio Grande water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
Water released from Caballo Reservoir mixes with ground water that has reached the surface in the Rio Grande during the first release of water from Elephant Butte Dam for the 2024 cycle on March 8 ...
Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences.The reservoir is the 84th largest man-made lake in the United States and the largest in New Mexico by total surface area and peak volume.
The water of the Rio Grande is over-appropriated: that is, more users for the water exist than water in the river. Because of both drought and overuse, the section from Las Cruces downstream through Ojinaga frequently runs dry and was recently tagged "The Forgotten River" by those wishing to bring attention to the river's deteriorated condition.
The water headed to Elephant Butte will count toward New Mexico's Rio Grande Compact delivery requirements. The Rio Grande Compact is a legal agreement signed in 1938 between Colorado, New Mexico ...
Jul. 22—With no rainfall in sight and continued heat plaguing the Rio Grande Valley, the only way the area can get enough water into its reservoirs to help prevent water shortages is for a ...
Amistad Dam (Spanish: Presa la Amistad) is a major embankment dam across the Rio Grande between Texas, United States, and Coahuila, Mexico.Built to provide irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydropower generation, it is the largest dam along the international boundary reach of the Rio Grande. [1]
An agreement aimed at ensuring more regular water from Mexico to the United States has been reached, both governments said on Saturday, following a long period of tension over a decades-old treaty.