Acequias are a traditional flood irrigation system prevalent across the Southwestern US that employ physical infrastructure and water management strategies to withstand the persistent aridity and periodic droughts characteristic of the region. Nearly 1000 acequias are still being managed communally in Southern Colorado and New Mexico today. Sustainability-focused academics have studied these systems to understand their implications for maintaining agricultural practices in a more arid future. This study is set in San Luis, CO, where the town’s first acequia was dug in 1852 and has remained in continual operation ever since. San Luis acequia community members reported that journalists and academics who write about the San Luis acequias fail to depict how modern pressures have weakened the community’s ability to respond to drought using the same strategies historically employed. These outside sources also ignore how the farmers have adapted the system from its traditional form. My results use ethnographic and interview data to supplement these incomplete portrayals of the San Luis acequias. I catalog visions for the future of the system that are diverse and divergent within the community. I capture the daily lives and agricultural practices of the San Luis acequia farmers at the request of community members hoping to portray the system as it currently functions for future generations. This report could serve as a blueprint for others studying traditionally drought resilient communities to inform a more arid future.