Testimony tells story of farmers vs. fish

...The good, bad and ugly of the Endangered Species Act's impact on the Rio Grande silvery minnow and availability of water for the residents of the Rio Grande Valley were discussed during a special congressional hearing in Belen on Saturday...
Jessica Sanchez of Red Doc Farms in Bosque, representing the New Mexico Cattle Growers, New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau and the Rio Grande Water Rights Association, opened with a greeting in Spanish and told about her family's roots going back 400 years to Juan de Oñate in the Rio Grande Valley.
"My family established the rules of the water and land with Spain, Mexico and then with the United States with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo," Sanchez said. "And now they say that there is a danger of us losing these rights and our water that is like the blood that runs through our veins." ...

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