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Nov. 2 - La Cienega Seeks Answers To Shrinking Water Supply

Deborah Martinez

 

A new gauge has just been installed to measure the amount of water in the ground in the hills of La Cienega – the rural community just south of Santa Fe.  Residents have been clamoring for the gauge for decades, as they watched their unique spring-fed ditches, or Acequias, dwindle.  As KSFR’s Deborah Martinez reports, the state-funded, water-measuring tool symbolizes the struggle of northern New Mexico’s communities to balance tradition and growth.