Pre-apocalypse water news and review for 2012
As we approach (just) the end of 2012, I wanted to make sure that several water-related stories circulating in parts of New Mexico stay vivid and don't fall out of circulation. As usual I've drawn heavily from La Jicarita . None of this is "news" to the people who have posted, shared, or spread these stories - it's only a way to reflect a bit on the links between them. Those links aren't always obvious. I'll start with what seems increasingly "natural" to the water wonks and local water experts in our region of the Southwest, drought . As detailed by Kay Matthews on the newly-revitalized La Jicarita webazine, Placitas, on the NE side of Albuquerque, is just one small village dealing with the at least two-year drought of 2011-12. After last winter's La Nina low snow non-events in the Southwest, the 2012 winter precipitation season is off to a very slow start. Things look grim , with people actually praying for snow, as opposed to expecting ...