White buses drop workers off at the export companies and cargo trucks line up to cross the bridges that straddle the concrete canal built to direct the flow of the Rio Grande River.

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Whatever water manages to get to Texas is destined for the town of Pecos, the last big farm community to use the river before it joins the Rio Grande.

ECONOMIST: The Pecos river

Stranded on the other side of his familial Rio Grande, he has not noticed how fast the river of historical time has been moving.

NEWYORKER: Late and Soon