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Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Bureau of Reclamation, called Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v.Keys [a] in its earlier phases, was a case launched in 1999 by a group of environmentalists against the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the United States Army Corps of Engineers alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Rio Grande silvery minnow was listed as endangered in 1994 as its numbers dwindled to only 7 percent of its historic range. Lawsuit to protect minnow imperiled in Pecos River, Rio Grande of ...
The Conservancy is a major recipient of water from the San Juan–Chama Project, a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River – a tributary of the Colorado River – to supplement water resources in the Rio Grande watershed. 24% of the 3,755,307,600 cubic feet (106,338,470 m 3) annual supply ...
The Treaty relating to the utilization of waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande (also known as Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande [1] or 1944 Water Treaty [2]) is a cooperative water agreement between the United States of America and Mexico defining allocation of Rio Grande water to the U.S. and Colorado River ...
Water in the Rio Grande flows east in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Monday, May 15, 2023. Water released into the river from Caballo Dam on Friday began to approach the Borderland for the annual ...
Each spring, water managers release water from the Elephant Butte Reservoir 130 miles north of El Paso, and the water crawls into the wide, dry bed of the Rio Grande in New Mexico.
The Rio Grande silvery minnow or Rio Grande minnow (Hybognathus amarus) is a small herbivorous North American fish. It is one of the seven North American members of the genus Hybognathus, in the cyprinid family. The Rio Grande silvery minnow is one of the most endangered fish in North America, according to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
The Isleta Diversion Dam is a structure on the Rio Grande in the Albuquerque Basin near Isleta Village Proper, New Mexico, United States, that diverts water from the river into irrigation canals. There have been some negative environmental impacts due to changes in the river flow that affect the native fish and drying of the riverside land.