Photo of the Day

San Luis Valley landscape
April 1, 2010

San Luis Valley, Colorado

This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Environment

Southwestern farmers have long shared community-operated waterways, or acequias, like the 150-year-old People’s Ditch in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.


See more photographs from the April 2010 National Geographic feature story "Water Is Life."

Photograph by Jack Dykinga

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