Adobe Whitewater Club
Grants Awarded
The pilot program intends to engage 20 South Valley youth in an outdoor leadership course that combines understanding of Bosque ecology, land history, and paddling skills for Rio exploration. The program emphasizes the link between acequia culture, Indigenous land practices, colonial impact, and contemporary river conditions by focusing on river restoration and water management.
The Adobe Whitewater Club serves as New Mexico’s largest membership organization for river recreation, offering education, stewardship, advocacy, and social opportunities for paddlers of all skill levels and backgrounds. From club trips and member meetings to on-shore river cleanups and summer clinics, to the historic downriver Mother’s Day Races, the AWC works to make loving and exploring rivers as easy, safe, and fun as possible. A few highlights in recent years include the successful efforts to maintain and restore stream access and the public right to waterways through litigation over efforts to privatize waterways in our state, as well as outdoor equity efforts such as hosting two Diversify Whitewater Community River Floats and Environmental Justice Paddle Tours, bringing over 100 first-time paddlers from the South Valley and other communities of color on the Rio Grande in Albuquerque.