Waters less unruly than unsettled
Back in the game for blogging! I had to take some time off to finish up the book on water rights and adjudications in New Mexico and that is now submitted to a press to be named later (don't want to count the chickens before...yeah). The book examines what we gain by tracking what water rights adjudications did to neighborly relations, in uncovering old wounds, and producing new water anxieties across the state. I'll be teasing this out over the next year or two as the book is produced and then released. For me, it's a relief that the first submission version is done and in. It almost did me in! There is something anti-climactic about working in the field, archives, and in the literature of water for 10 years and simply hitting the "send" button on e-mail to submit. I still remember having to send physical (and multiple) copies on paper for the first book. It's been a warm-ish winter and an unstable spring, with some unpredictable late winter-like storms...