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José A. Rivera
Books by José A. Rivera
Water for the People
The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context
Edited by Enrique R. Lamadrid and José A. Rivera
Winner of the Historical Society of New Mexico Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award Winner of the 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for History Anthology Water for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, u...
Acequia Culture
Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest
Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, are acequias, or community irrigation ditches...