When deputies arrived, they found 32-year-old Miguel Cordero lying in an irrigation ditch, unresponsive with apparent trauma. Paramedics responded to the scene and pronounced Cordero dead, HCSO said.

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A woman whose car flipped into a Northern California irrigation ditch on Monday was rescued by a stranger — who, the CHP said, was also first on the scene at a fatal crash last month.

There are more than 700 acequias across New Mexico, and these irrigation ditches support communities and families rooted in the practice. Some of the ditches are decades, if not hundreds of years ...