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State braces for another year of drought
Description: New Mexico is staring down the fifth consecutive year of drought, with the first runoff forecast of the year pointing to yet another year of low flows on the Rio Grande. Water managers cautioned that it is still early, with months left for mountain snows to catch up. The forecast is based in large part on the amount of snow that has fallen in the mountains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado to date. That snow, when it melts, provides the river runoff used in the Rio Grande Valley over the spring and summer. [Source: Albuquerque Journal]
URL: http://www.abqjournal.com/522723/news/new-mexico-at-risk-of-fifth-year-of-drought-sapped-rivers.html
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Source: Albuquerque Journal
Publish Date: 1/7/2015
Reading Level: Basic
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