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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Rep. Melanie Stansbury on New Mexico Water & the Rio Grande
Description: Laura Paskus, Executive Producer of "Our Land: New Mexico's Environmental Past, Present, and Future," on NMPBS talks with U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-NM, about her three water bills that passed the U.S. House of Representatives for inclusion in the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act.
At the end of July, just as Stansbury's bills were moving through the House, people living in Albuquerque watched the Rio Grande dry through the city for the first time in almost forty years.
For decades, that river’s also been drying to the south during the summer ir...