Agua Querencia: New Mexico Acequias and the Struggle for Environmental Life

As the environmental crisis continues, struggles for resources and life continue to persist. In this episode, we are joined by Alejandria Lyons, a Nueva Mexicana water activist and the coordinator for environmental justice at the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Alejandria shares with us the historical struggle for water rights in New Mexico, commencing with acequias, a traditional water system used to maintain community throughout the state. To the struggle against major development aiming to acquire water rights for the construction of housing development and corporate headquarters. The struggle for water stretches across the world and the battle for water in New Mexico offers insight into the urgency to continue to momentum to protect and preserve environmental life.