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This isn't true. I live in Albuquerque about 1/4 of a mile from the river and there's literally no water anywhere. The ditches are dry, the reservoirs in the northern part of the state are tapped out, and the Albuquerque Water Authority stopped diverting water from the Rio Grande several months ago.

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It is being diverted before it gets to Albequerque

Some of it is, yes. But a lot of the water flowing through the Albuquerque stretch comes from the Colorado River basin. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan–Chama_Project

The entire Colorado River basin is essentially running at critical levels.

Doesn't that mean mcone is correct, and the water isn't being diverted intentionally? The implication from the original comment seems to be humans are doing this on purpose, but the retort from mcone is that's misleading because there is no water and we couldn't fill it if we wanted to.

I am not an expert on this. I'm just reading the comments.

The answer is likely both: dry or drought conditions combined with high water usage leading to the river drying

The article says the Albuquerque drain is flowing at 130 cfs?

Their term for the subterranean water flow. The above ground river is just the top of what’s going on underground.

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