LAS CRUCES - Dr. Bill Harris, associate director of the Texas Water Resources Institute in College Station, Texas, received a team award for the Rio Grande Basin Irrigation Conservation Initiative from New Mexico State University. The award was presented April 21 at the Live, Learn and Thrive awards convocation here.
Harris is also the administrator of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas Cooperative Extension initiative efforts.
He and Craig Runyan, coordinator for the project at NMSU received the award. The team was commended for “achieving significant water savings in agricultural irrigation and in addressing community water needs.”
The Rio Grande initiative is a federally funded effort that involves faculty and researchers from New Mexico and Texas, as well as personnel from other state and federal agencies.
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