Reporter’s Notebook: Walking to Mexico in a Dust Storm

Take a stroll through a dusty water crisis in the Texas-Chihuahua borderlands from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez to Boquilla and the Sierra Tarahumara.

The U.S.-Mexico border during the March 18 dust storm. (Photo by Todd Miller)

We are standing on the Prospect Street Bridge over Interstate 10 in El Paso, Texas, during a ferocious dust storm at around 2 p.m. on March 18. I am with geographer Joseph Nevins, who tries to fend off the dust barrage by wearing an N95 mask. You may already know Joe; he did a …