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Escuelita de las Acequias
In recent years, the New Mexico Acequia Association established the Escuelita de las Acequias which is our service learning and leadership development program. We have worked closely with adults and youth from various acequia Read more
Sembrando Semillas
The Sembrando Semillas Project was created in 2005 by the NMAA to address the need to engage younger generations in the continuation of agriculture and land-based traditions associated with New Mexico’s acequias. Read more
Thanks to the Upper Pecos Watershed Association (pecoswatershed.org ) and the people of Pecos for gearing up to fight the mine.
From the article:
The impending battle less than a half-hour from Santa Fe is a story nearly as old as the West itself: Locals facing off against those they consider interlopers in a bitter conflict over the environment, land and water rights, and money.
Paula Garcia, executive director of the New Mexico Acequia Association, told villagers their most powerful weapon is their water rights. Working the crowd with some role-playing theatrics, she asked attendees what they would say to any mining company that approached them to buy water rights.
“Hell, no!” the assembly said in unison.
Pecos residents unite against proposed mine
santafenewmexican.com
Australian-based New World Cobalt and its American subsidiary, Comexico LLC already have received permission to conduct exploratory mining operations.