August 22 At Noon: Today's top local news headlines & features from the KSFR Newsroom. (listen)

In today's features, we speak to Santa Fe County about the series of upcoming meetings on new capital improvement projects. We also hear a report on a vast water project in Israel's Kidron Valley, a place where indigenous people share a connection to the land not unlike here in New Mexico.  Those items plus 60 Seconds with Christopher Hagen.