what used to be a giant River the Rio
Grande was really more like the Rio sand
I’m Pete McBride I’m a photographer and
filmmaker and I’m here on the Rio Grande
just east of El Paso in a section called
The Forgotten reach it’s called that
because by the time it gets here there’s
still a little water that’s just
basically an irrigation ditch you can
see how deep the river is and this river
is all but gone here it shows what
happens when we ask too much of these
limited resources they simply disappear
the Rio Grande runs 1900 miles and
supports 16 million people in 1.6
million Acres of Farmland last year it
ran dry in Albuquerque New Mexico for
the first time in 40 years beautiful at
Sunset but story of fresh water and what
we’ve done to it is not as beautiful