High Country News has posted a video that provides a really nice snapshot of life on Pajarito Mesa. The residents of the Mesa have been struggling for decades to bring adequate services to their community, and SWOP has been fighting along with them. Construction has finally begun on a water filling station which will open later this year.
The video for High Country News was put together by Cally Carswell and focuses on the efforts of Organizer Sandra Montes and her experience in bringing water and other services to Pajarito Mesa.
Illegal dumping is just one of the hardships that burden everyday life on Pajarito Mesa, an unincorporated rural community southwest of Albuquerque. Because it's more than 150 miles from the Mexican border, the community doesn't meet the official federal definition of a colonia. But by all other standards - lack of access to drinking water, electricity, sewage systems and adequate housing - living conditions on the mesa are little different than those found in the hardscrabble settlements near the border.
Check out HCN's Pajarito Mesa video here.
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