After years of drought in the Southwest, a stretch of the Rio Grande once flowing through ... “Most folks in Albuquerque who have lived here have grown up always seeing the river have water ...

For the first time in four decades, America’s fifth-longest river went dry in Albuquerque last week. Habitat for the endangered Rio Grande silvery ... chance swimming through treated sewage.

Much of the riverbed is exposed in Bernalillo, New Mexico, some 15 miles north of Albuquerque ... the Rio Grande’s discharge rate—a measure of how fast water is flowing through a river ...