Description
Water is the lifeblood of human existence. New Mexico’s history provides an enchanting microcosm of the role water plays within the growth and development of a community. This book details a number of the complex and messy fights, legal and in a different way, over precious water in a semiarid western state. That specialize in the past one hundred years constituting New Mexico’s statehood, contributors describe the incessantly convoluted and all the time intriguing stories that experience shaped New Mexico’s water past and on the way to, doubtless, influence its future history. Many of New Mexico’s ”movers and shakers” within the water community have contributed their water war stories to the book. From acclaimed water lawyers to historians to novelists to academicians, their stories reflect the broad legal, historic, traditional, religious, and community values of New Mexico’s water culture. The celebration of New Mexico’s centennial is made more complete with the telling of these exciting and colorful narratives of how water has and will shape our future.