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Record-Low Snowpack and Historic Heat Threaten New Mexico’s Time-Honored Irrigation Canals

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—On a sunny spring morning at the end of March, a woman raised her little girl above an irrigation ditch that runs just west of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque’s South Valley. The toddler, with a braided head piece crowning her long, brown hair and artificial…