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Thirty miles away in the city of Durango (pop. 15,000) at El Patio Bar & Grill, misting machines spray diners to keep them cool. Lawns are lush, and the golf course has fairways greener than fresh limes. But according to the widely used Palmer monthly drought index, the region around Durango is suffering the worst drought in the U.S. In June the Missionary Ridge fire, northeast of town, burned 70,000 acres. Only 2.86 in. of rain have fallen all year. And Durango, which since 1877 has had first rights to the water that flows down the Florida River...
...Durango-which means "well-watered place"-embodies all the perplexities of water management in the West. Any water that is allowed to run downstream is wasted water. Any water that can be held captive behind the thousands of dams built under the 1902 Reclamation Act is good water. Today the contradictions of this water policy are starting to show through as clearly as the cracked earth on the bottom of the Lemon Reservoir. Some 14 miles northeast of Durango, the Lemon was built in 1963 to hold 40,000 acre-ft. of water for irrigation in the area...
...ALIEN Tonight Manjarrez's agents caught 709 illegals. One was Aurelio Gonzales, 52, a farmer from Durango. He had crossed with his 20-year-old daughter, intending to link up with a sister who lives in Phoenix. Gonzales paid smugglers $800 for each passage, up sharply from the $300 it cost before the border patrol put in all its lights, cameras and extra agents. The father and daughter had been walking for two days, though their coyote had said it would take less than an hour to cross the border. "They lied to us," said Gonzales, sitting, exhausted...
Gonzales has a 40-acre farm in Durango, but half of it is covered with cactus, and the beans he grows earn him less than $5 a day. "With six children and my wife, it is not enough." He was in debt 50,000 pesos--about $5,000--and could not pay even the interest on his loan. "I was thinking about coming to the U.S. for a while. Finally, I told my wife, and she said, 'If you can do it, get it done.'" His only other choice was to sell part of his land, which would make...
...Afro-Cuban conga and the West African djembe--a loud, responsive instrument with the brightest high tones and the deepest, most sensual lows. "Drumming is primal," says Kulu Spiegel, who conducts circles for at-risk youth and corporate honchos out of his World Beat Rhythm Circles in Durango, Colo. "It brings people together in a trusting way they often have never known before...