Costilla County’s Water Crisis: How Can High‑Desert Residents Secure a Reliable Well Water Supply?
The high‑desert plateaus of Colorado’s San Luis Valley are stunning, vast grasslands framed by mountains and laced with centuries‑old irrigation ditches. For many people in Costilla County, however, those vistas hide a precarious reality. Hundreds of off‑grid homes, particularly in the Sangre de Cristo Ranches, depend on hauling water from a nearby filling station […]