Marya Sheelah

New Mexico Drought 2025. Following a period of incredibly hot days in july, a stretch of the rio grande river in albuquerque, new mexico is nothing more than a muddy creek bed—something that hasn’t. A diversion on the mimbres river in southern new mexico in february 2023.

(photo by megan gleason / source nm) after unprecedented disasters, local governments in charge. Every drop of water matters in a dry state such as new mexico.