Our Mission
    
The Taos Valley Acequia Association insures the long-term sustainability of the traditional agricultural communities of the Taos Valley by protecting water rights and preserving and strengthening the acequia system.

"The TVAA, in my opinion, is the most active and efficient regional
acequia association in the state. You are the model. "
Eric Perramond
Author of the Blog, Acequias and Adjudication
Associate Professor
Southwest Studies & Environmental Science
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Ranchers Forum & Winter Market

Co-sponsored by NMAA & TCEDC

Friday, Feb 24th, 8:30am - 5:00pm
Saturday, Feb 25th, 8:30am - 3:00pm

TCEDC Business Park
1021 Salazar RD.Taos, NM


Mark your calendars:

Taos Valley Acequia Association Annual Meeting

April 27 to 29

Details to follow


NMAA partners with NMSU and UNM on acequia study

By Quita Ortiz, Land and Water Program, New Mexico Acequia Association

Posted on February 21, 2012


Annual Meeting of Randall Reservoir & Acequia Association

Saturday, March 3, 2012 10:00 a.m.

Juan I. Gonzales Agricultural Building--Conference Room
202 Chamisa Road, Taos, NM  87571

For a copy of the agenda,
contact commissioner Adkison at 575-770-2490


DRYLANDS DESIGN CONFERENCE
RETROFITTING THE WEST: Adaptation by Design

INNOVATIONS IN PLANNING,
LANDSCAPE, ENGINEERING,
AND ARCHITECTURE

MARCH 22-24, 2012
BURBANK, CA

FOR MOR INFORMATION VISIT WWW.DRYLANDSCONFERENCE.COM


Forest policy affects acequias
Acequia association head wary of impact on traditional communities

By Staci Matlock | The New Mexican

1/26/2012


Noticias de las Acequias, January 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012

From New Mexico Acequia Association


SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 15

50TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 2012

INTRODUCED BY Gerald Ortiz y Pino

A JOINT MEMORIAL
REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO ACEQUIA COMMISSION TO STUDY METHODS
OF MUTUAL COOPERATION BETWEEN THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE CONSERVANCY
DISTRICT AND ACEQUIA ASSOCIATIONS IN THE SOUTH VALLEY TO
PROTECT ACEQUIAS IN THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY.

Posted 1/24/2012



     "Parciantes construct the social meaning and purpose of their lives as members of a community out of sacred and secular acequia practices.  This community identifies itself as historically continuous, genealogically connected, territorially placed, and socially enacted through the interrelated practices of irrigation, ditch management, water sharing, reciprocity, and religious celebration.  Ritual observances (funciones) are woven into a larger cultural fabric.  This culture is a dynamic, ever-changing process or field, not a static, bounded, or finite entity.  It is a process whereby the ditch-based population inscribes itself, through time, upon the topography or landscape of the Taos basin.  It is a process that produces local subjects and shapes them into moral subjects.  The ditches and the practices that maintain their functionality and communal meaning represent the historical process through which the natural topography becomes a cultural landscape.  Religious teachings and rituals are parallel processes through which children learn moral comportment and gain membership in a devotional community."
Sylvia Rodriguez
Acequia; Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place




“what could make a person strong is understanding completely where you come from,” says former Rio Arriba county commision president Alfredo Montoya. “Understanding who you are. What your village has to offer. Your history. your traditions and customs. How spiritually there’s places to go. And that is why the land and water issues, fighting for the acequias and the land grant movement, are so important for recovering from substance abuse.”

–from the book ‘chiva: a village takes on
the global heroin trade’
by Chellis Glendinning