The water truck is filled.
Biologists are on standby.
River intelligence is being gathered daily by plane. Even the regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is ready to roll up her sleeves and get wet. They are prepared to begin emergency rescue operations for stranded minnows, saying they do not want a repeat of four years ago when thousands of minnows perished when river flows virtually ceased as the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District drained the Rio Grande to irrigate farmers' crops. I am not banking on anything. We are ready to rescue minnows.