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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 19

Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived." And Mexico and the US fund "water resiliency" for the Rio Grande, plus more news.

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This Week in The Border Chronicle:

Wild Waters and Unfulfilled Promises

Wild Waters and Unfulfilled Promises

In a 2023 image by Mexican photographer Eunice Adorno, a man stands in front of a towering wall, searching for the horizon line where the concrete ends and the sky begins. It’s as though he were contemplating an ancient structure, trying to interpret its meaning.

Can the Water Resiliency Fund Help Revive the Endangered Rio Grande?

Can the Water Resiliency Fund Help Revive the Endangered Rio Grande?

The lower Rio Grande, which supplies drinking water to millions on both sides of the border from Del Rio, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, is the fifth-most endangered river in the United States. That’s according to the water conservation nonprofit …

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The entrance to Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico. The Trump administration is proposing a 30-foot border wall through the historic site. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque)

More News from the Border:

Canada and Mexico agree to deepen ties amid Trump trade war BBC

60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss The Washington Post

First section of new border wall in Az's San Rafael Valley visible Monday The Tucson Sentinel

Texas troopers are doubling their salaries under Abbott's border effort, even as crossings hit new lows Austin American-Statesman

Fort Bliss ‘assessing potential risks’ after city of El Paso deploys Chinese-made drones next to Army post El Paso Matters

South County Report: Democracy Is Dying? Not in National City Voice of San Diego

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