Featured in the Yale School of Architecture gallery, the Architekturforum Aedes, Berlin, and Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region by Lars Muller Publishers
The Rio Grande has become severely diminished in the region due to heavy growth of agriculture, surface water appropriation battles between states, and channelization. Regulations governing the use of water tend to fall within geopolitical lines, failing to recognize the greater watershed. In fact, the wall and other infrastructural elements separating El Paso from Ciudad Juárez further exacerbate ecological issues by physically bifurcating the watershed.
The Network for the Re-Appropriation of Hydrologic Byproducts (NRAHB) is a research institute that promotes public knowledge of water treatment technology as is relates to the Rio Grande watershed. Rather than re-affirming the political state of the international border, NRAHB seeks to redefine the region as an integrated, transnational ecology.
