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      <image:title>River Stories - “What can we do?” (A lot.)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whether you’re a person or a porcupine, you can be a good member of your watershed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>River Stories - ‘The river was never meant to sit the way it does behind the walls of these dams’ - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>River Stories - ‘The river was never meant to sit the way it does behind the walls of these dams’</image:title>
      <image:caption>The headwaters of the Colorado River and the Rio Grande are both in record “snow drought.” And both river basins also experienced their warmest winters on record. Read the Drought.gov drought status update for March 12 online here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>River Stories - Will New Mexico’s Rivers Get a Cut of the Budget in 2026?</image:title>
      <image:caption>As New Mexico’s state legislators ready for the 2026 session, constituents can weigh in on whether rivers are a priority.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>River Stories - Will New Mexico’s Rivers Get a Cut of the Budget in 2026?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The NRCS released its January 1, 2026 water supply forecast. Click here to visit the NRCS’s website and navigate the interactive map for yourself.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>River Stories - Water security at ‘grave’ risk on the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo - New study shows that 85 percent of the water used in New Mexico from the Rio Grande system is ‘fundamentally unsustainable.’ That doesn’t mean there isn’t water for the river itself, however.</image:title>
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      <image:title>River Stories - Water security at ‘grave’ risk on the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo - In December, Brian Richter spoke in detail about the study. Here's an edited excerpt of our conversation.</image:title>
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      <image:title>River Stories - For decades, New Mexico’s Lower Rio Grande has been ‘dry by design’ - New Mexico’s rivers lack rights to their own waters. But it doesn’t have to be that way. New Mexico Wild’s Tricia Snyder says the state has useful tools in place. They just need to be better organized. And better funded.</image:title>
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      <image:title>River Stories - For decades, New Mexico’s Lower Rio Grande has been ‘dry by design’ - “Every drop of water and then some is promised to somebody — and we're staring down a hydrologic reality that we’ll have significantly less water in the future,” says Snyder.</image:title>
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      <image:title>River Stories - ‘We kept it looking like things were normal.’</image:title>
      <image:caption>A coyote searches for water in mid-August 2025 in Albuquerque. LP.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>River Stories - ‘We kept it looking like things were normal.’ - “We know what to do. We're just not doing it.”</image:title>
      <image:caption>A turkey vulture checks out a puddle in the Middle Rio Grande in August 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>River Stories - Why not envision a better future?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Rio Grande in Albuquerque.</image:caption>
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