More drought on tap for western US amid low river flows

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — The mighty Rio Grande is looking less mighty as U.S. forecasters predict spring flows will be less than half of average — or worse — and that signals potential trouble for the already stressed waterway. One of the longest rivers in North America, the Rio Grande delivers drinking water and irrigation supplies to millions of people from southern Colorado into Texas and Mexico under a decades-old water-sharing agreement. With more dry years than wet ones over the last two decades, how much water ends up flowing downstream has been a point of contention among the states. As New Mexico and Texas battle over their shares before the U.S. Supreme Court, forecasters with the federal government's Natural Resources Conservation S