Working on the Levees

The Rio Grande in the El Paso, Texas/Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Rio Grande Valley has a long history of human use, from prehistoric to modern times. Formal irrigation began in the 1600s, mainly for viticulture and fruit trees, changing to cotton in the 1800s. The Rio Grande was subject to bed shifti...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies

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