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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Susan Montoya Bryan

Southwestern US rivers get boost from winter snowpack

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Federal water managers have more room to breathe this spring as two Southwestern rivers that provide New Mexico and Texas with drinking water and irrigation supplies are seeing the benefits of record snowpack and spring runoff.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service delivered the good news Tuesday for water managers, cities and farmers as federal officials rolled out operating plans for the Rio Grande and the Pecos River.

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