Dancing for Water is written by Stanley Crawford, and originally appeared in the autumn 1990 special issue of JSW, partly focused on water rights in northern New Mexico.

With this audio essay we are launching a new experiment that we're calling the JSW GSW Radio Archive.

For each episode of the archive we will read short essays or excerpts of essays that have appeared in the JSW. We'll also be reading occasionally from other materials that while not originally from Journal we nonetheless think are important for understanding the historical geography of the Southwest and border lands region including northern Mexico