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Cienega

The Cienega de Santa Clara wetland, in Sonora province in northwestern Mexico, is fed by runoff from U.S. farms irrigated with water from the Colorado River.

At the end of the Colorado, a new rift opens over the river’s last drops

Environment

A plan by the U.S. to reuse polluted Colorado River water that now flows across the Border into Mexico is putting one of the region’s last wildlife refuges, and a number of Mexican farms, at risk.

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