George Ancona spent a year photographing the school garden at
Acequia Madre Elementary School near his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Among the topics are Pueblo watersheds, Navajo water rights and the Black Mesa struggle, politics of the Colorado River with Stewart Udall, the watershed and the sense of place in the Merced and
Acequia landscape, the quest for a sustainable food culture, and navigating the rapids of the future.
Condio, Doo-Rag Townized Clay, Round Hill of Little Bells, began modern irrigation in the 1800s,
Acequia de los Barriales
Acequia de la Placita,
Acequia, de Molino,
Acequia de los Quarteles, routed water for farming and herding.
Durante el siglo XIX, el Cabanyal era un barrio popular de pescadores y hortelanos, fragmento del municipio independiente del Poble Nou de la Mar--delimitado en aquel tiempo por el municipio fronterizo de Villanueva del Grau (el Grau), Partido Santo Tomas, la
acequia de la Cadena y el mar--, comprendiendo los barrios del Cabanyal y el Canyameral.
In a state frequently ravaged by drought, the
acequia system operates a under repartimiento (water sharing) system in proportion to what the various groups of people in the system need.
For seventy-three years they also lived in the Spanish Territorial Revival house they designed and built in New Mexico at the edge of Santa Fe's
Acequia Madre ("main ditch"), affectionately called the "house of the three wise women" by their friend the California journalist and preservationist Charles Fletcher Lummis.