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Walking Ancient Waterways” has a nifty juxtaposition of words on its front cover. The “ancient waterways” subtitle in English ...

William Mullholland is often hailed as the man who brought water to Los Angeles, but there’s an earlier group Angelenos owe flowers to: The original founders of L.A., and the Zanja Madre. The system ...

The $68M water treatment plant under construction will tap historic irrigation canals to deliver a stronger, cleaner water ...

Early Boulder County settlers - who wrested control of the region from local natives to build ditches and irrigation systems - set the stage for much of the water development in Colorado. This is a ...

Santiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver ...

The source of water — and whether there’s enough to go around — is at the heart of concerns about a proposed agritourism development for some local residents and Garfield County officials. Nutrient ...

That canal or ditch next to your back yard is not a convenient trash disposal system as a place to dump your lawn clippings, old tires, household trash, or debris from landscaping. That’s the message ...