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Back to SearchWater Update (01/28/26)
With Albuquerque’s first big snow storm of 2026 in the rearview mirror, Rin Tara and John Fleck look at how the mountains holding the critical snowpa…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
9: Water Ambassadors Legislative Priorities
Episode 9
Guest: Dr. Ladona Clayton
As the New Mexico legislature begins a budget-focused 30-day session, the New Mexico Water Ambassadors have laid out their t…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Water Update (01/14/26)
The snowpack in the headwaters basins of northern New Mexico and Colorado points to another low-runoff year on New Mexico’s major rivers. The January…
4 months ago
Water Update (12/24/25)
When Irving Berlin penned “White Christmas” more than six decades ago, he did not have Albuquerque in mind. According to the National Weather Service…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
8: Shortage Sharing
Episode 8
Guest: Stephanie Russo Baca
The old Western cliché that whiskey’s for drinking while water is for fighting over has always been problematic. Frequentl…
5 months ago
Water Update (12/10/25)
This week, Rin and John talk about flows on the Rio Grande, planning for a new federal river management project south of Socorro, groundwater contami…
5 months, 1 week ago
7: Is Water for Fighting Over?
Episode 7
Guest: John Fleck
A decade ago, the Utton Center's Writer in Residence John Fleck published his book Water is For Fighting Over and Other Myths About …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Water Update (11/12/25)
Rin Tara and John Fleck discuss water conditions in New Mexico for the week of November 10.
6 months, 1 week ago
Water Update (10/29/25)
Rin Tara and John Fleck discuss water conditions in New Mexico for the week of October 27.
A full interview episode will be available later this month.
6 months, 3 weeks ago
6: Adaptive Agriculture in Northern New Mexico
Episode 6
Guest: Don Bustos, Santa Cruz Farms
Irrigated from the Acequia del Llano running across the upper end of his four acres outside Española, New Mexico, …
7 months ago