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C. J. Alvarez

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How the Rio Grande Was Engineered into a Border

Twisting waters once blurred the boundary, but twentieth-century engineering turned the Rio Grande into a fixed, policed line.

by Matthew Wills, C. J. Alvarez via JSTOR Daily on March 30, 2026
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Drought-Related Crises Are Afflicting Millions. Desert Dwellers Can Offer Advice.

If we accept that we live in a desert nation, we can glean insights about how to live with aridity.

by C. J. Alvarez, Patricia Nelson Limerick via Made By History on July 19, 2021

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The Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, which runs across the US–Mexico border, Starr County, Texas, 2017.

Stopping the Old Rio Grande

In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today.

by Caroline Tracey via New York Review of Books on January 11, 2024

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