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Article: Life Dries Up for Texas-Area Rafting-Trip Organizers on Rio Grande River.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- June 9, 2003
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By Jim Henderson, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 9--TERLINGUA, Texas--Jan Forte's company runs rafting trips on the Rio Grande, or at least it used to.
In recent years, canoes have been about the only craft the river would bear and as often as not the adventurers spent as much time in portage as paddling.
"I tell them, 'If your canoe dumps you, just get up and dust yourself off and get back in,' " she says.
A decade of drought in West Texas and northern Mexico has all but dried up the mighty Rio Grande and the farms and businesses that feed on it.
Motels, restaurants and outfitters have seen ...