Nationalgeographic, By: Sandra Postel, 04/23/2013
Releasing Water
Aurelio Alfaro Rodríguez with the Tucson, Arizona-based Sonoran Institute lifts a gate to release water into an irrigation ditch at a restoration site in the Colorado Delta. Photo by Cheryl Zook, National Geographic
In the delta community of Miguel Alemán, situated along the Colorado River corridor that forms the border between Mexico and Arizona, we arrive at an unlikely enterprise in this parched environment: a tree nursery.
