Panel OKs Diversion of Water to River
From Times Wire Reports
In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals panel in Denver ruled the Bureau of Reclamation can send water from a New Mexico reservoir to the Rio Grande to aid the endangered silvery minnow.
Critics of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling decried it as a threat to all cities and farmers served by federal water projects. Albuquerque’s mayor said it takes “water from the mouths of this city’s children” and puts the city’s future water supply in jeopardy.
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