Posts Tagged ‘acequias’
It Flows
Monday, July 12th, 2010For the first episode of our new season of shows, we spent the third week of June in the Española Valley of New Mexico, a place none of us had been to before. It was truly eye-opening and exciting to spend time with farmers, santeros, mechanics, therapists, professors, oral historians, addicts, cashiers, musicians and poets…
The reason we ventured southwest-ward in the first place was because of water. Specifically the way in which the people of the valley, for well over 400 years, have thought about, shared and used water. In New Mexico, there are more than 1,000 acequias, which are not only man-made irrigation ditches, but also an entire culture and decentralized democracy in and of themselves. (more…)
