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Water Matters!

著者： Utton Transboundary Resources Center
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The Utton Transboundary Resources Center’s Water Matters! podcast looks at water and natural resources issues in New Mexico and beyond. Housed at the University of New Mexico School of Law, the Utton Transboundary Resources Center is a state-funded research and public service project that believes in the pursuit of well informed, collaborative solutions to our natural resource challenges. The Utton Transboundary Resources Center’s Sairis Perez-Gomez designed the podcast logo and wrote and performed our theme music and Student Research Assistant Francesca Glaspell produced this episode.


Rin Tara is a staff attorney specializing in water policy and governance at the Utton Transboundary Resources Center. They are primarily interested in questions of water management in the face of climate change. They have done work in riparian restoration, river connectivity, tribal water sovereignty, climate change adaptation, and water rights. They have authored several papers on topics related to the future of western water management.

John Fleck is Writer in Residence at the Utton Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico School of Law; and Professor of Practice in Water Policy and Governance in the University of New Mexico Department of Economics. The former director of the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program, he is the author of four books on water in the west, including the forthcoming history of Albuquerque’s relationship with the Rio Grande – Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of a Modern American City.

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  • 15: John Fleck on Tending the Middle Rio Grande Garden

    15: John Fleck on Tending the Middle Rio Grande Garden
    2026/07/17

    In this week’s Water Matters, John Fleck switches from the host’s chair to the guest’s chair (it’s really the same chair) as co-host Rin Tara sits down with him to talk about the new book he and Bob Berrens wrote, Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque. From Voltaire’s Candide to the myth of a lost Garden of Eden on the Rio Grande Valley floor, Rin and John talk about how the effort to manage a river shaped the modern garden Albuquerque has become, and what lessons the process might have for the challenges our community faces in a climate changed world.
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    35 分
  • Water Update (07/09/26)

    Water Update (07/09/26)
    2026/07/09

    Lots of news on this week’s Water Matters.

    • Kelsey Fendler rows the Pacific (paywalled)
    • Mark Olalde, Alex Hager, and Sharon Chischilly on the Northeastern Arizona water settlement
    • Algal blooms at Clayton Lake, but also dinosaur tracks!
    • Santa Clara raises its water rates
    • High tech fire detection in Albuquerque’s bosque
    • Roswell water quality report
    • Heather Sackett on Colorado West Slope lawmakers breaking from their state’s tough stance on Colorado River negotiations
    • New Mexico gets a new Colorado River negotiator
    • Inciweb for the latest fire updates
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    18 分
  • Water Update (06/24/26)

    Water Update (06/24/26)
    2026/06/24

    Hunting for signs of hope in a hot, dry June

    With a high pressure system parked over the Four Corners, Albuquerque has been hot and dry, and in this week’s episode Rin Tara and John Fleck don’t shy away from the bad water news weighing on New Mexico:

    • Total flow on the Rio Grande at Otowi so far this year is the lowest it has been since 1904
    • 81 miles of the Rio Grande’s main channel between Otowi and San Marcial is dry
    • The federal government has stopped paying to monitor the Rio Grande for Los Alamos National Laboratory contamination at Santa Fe’s Buckman diversion

    But they also see hopeful signs:

    • Forecasters say odds favor a wet summer monsoon season, the July-September period that brings afternoon thunderstorms to Albuquerque
    • While the Rio Grande’s main channel is dry through large stretches of Albuquerque, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy district was able to capture some of the flow from recent rains to deliver water to irrigators in and around Albuquerque
    • Delivering water to Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District outfalls to keep a bit of water flowing in the Rio Grande’s main channel

    Other links and news of note:

    • Restoring the headwaters
    • Albuquerque’s drinking water quality report
    • Surface water quality standards
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    13 分
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