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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Jerry Redfern

Life Along a Threatened River

To the people who live along it, the Pecos is a river of stories old and new as it winds through the Permian Basin of New Mexico.

For a longtime farmer, the Pecos provides the water for his crops, while the oil and gas industry he strongly supports appears to have tainted the water in his home.

For an environmentalist, her hometown river and her neighbors are under threat from the toxic waste produced in the surrounding oilfields.

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