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The 2023 Trinidad Water Festival & the Acequia Assistance Project
...irrigation system (a ditch) and a philosophical approach to water management. In Colorado, acequias exist in Costilla, Conejos, Huerfano, and Las Animas counties. As water becomes scarcer, acequias offer a powerful model of...
Learning to be lawyers one ditch at a time
...where they clear debris from irrigation ditches or acequias and provide free legal assistance to farmers whose water rights are in question. “We work with local farmers or irrigators to...
Faculty Tour of Southern Colorado Sparks New Connections
...the Steelworks Center of the West, and the Pueblo Levee Mural Project in Pueblo; Otero State College in La Junta; a local acequia (a shared irrigation ditch or canal) and...
Acequia Assistance Project
...educational materials to Colorado’s acequia communities. What is an Acequia? The word acequia means “water bearer” in Arabic. An acequia is both a physical irrigation system (a ditch) and a...
‘Project Drought’ taps drones for agricultural use
CU Boulder is teaming up with a local company to use unmanned aircraft to measure water moisture at an irrigation farm in Yuma, Colorado.......
CU Law School Students to Install Cookstoves in Peru, Combating Poverty and Global Warming
...by working on other community development projects such as irrigation improvements, community gardens and animal husbandry. Caritas and the University of San Pablo also will conduct ongoing auditing to ensure...