The New Mexico Acequia Association (NMAA) seeks to protect water and the state’s acequias, or community-operated watercourses, as well as to promote local food production and honor cultural heritage. Through involvement with the NMAA, families and youth are inspired to cultivate the land, care for our acequias, and heal past injustices. In recent years, the New Mexico Acequia Association established the Escuelita de las Acequia, which is their service learning and leadership development program. The Association also operates the Acequia Governance Project, which aims to strengthen acequia governance community education, technical assistance, and legal assistance. The Sembrando Semillas Project was created in 2005 by the NMAA to address the need to engage younger generations in the continuation of agriculture and land-based traditions associated with New Mexico’s acequias.

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New Mexico Acequia Association

New Mexico Acequia Association

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