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Water Update (05/06/26)
May 6, 2026
13m 20s
Water Update (04/22/26)
Apr 22, 2026
11m 50s
12: Tucker Davidson on Birds and Hope
Apr 17, 2026
25m 40s
Water Update (04/08/26)
Apr 8, 2026
6m 54s
11: The Proposed Settlement of Texas v. New Mexico on the Rio Grande
Mar 27, 2026
43m 55s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/6/26 | Water Update (05/06/26) | In this week’s Water Matters, Rin Tara and John Fleck talk about the delightfully named “jiggle,” a series of pulses released from Isleta Diversion Dam downstream from Albuquerque. It’s a technique valuable in dry years to encourage the spawning of the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow. And this is a very dry year – the lowest flow ever recorded for late April, for example (when Rin and John recorded this), at the US Geological Survey’s historic Embudo Gage. Links: · &n... | 13m 20s | ||||||
| 4/22/26 | Water Update (04/22/26)✨ | water newsrunoff season+2 | — | USGS | the Rio GrandeEspañola+1 | water updateEmbudo+1 | — | 11m 50s | |
| 4/17/26 | 12: Tucker Davidson on Birds and Hope✨ | birdsdrought+3 | Tucker Davidson | Audubon Southwest | Rio GrandeAlbuquerque+1 | Audubon Southwestbird nerd+1 | — | 25m 40s | |
| 4/8/26 | Water Update (04/08/26)✨ | Colorado Riverwater management+2 | — | the Bureau of Reclamation | Colorado Riverthe Colorado River Basin+4 | Bureau of ReclamationGlen Canyon Dam+4 | — | 6m 54s | |
| 3/27/26 | 11: The Proposed Settlement of Texas v. New Mexico on the Rio Grande✨ | Texas v. New MexicoRio Grande+2 | Phil King | New Mexico State University | TexasNew Mexico+2 | lawsuitwater rights+2 | — | 43m 55s | |
| 3/11/26 | Water Update (03/11/26)✨ | snowpackriver flows+3 | — | USGS Albuquerque gageSnowpack reports+6 | New Mexico’sMiddle Rio Grande Valley+2 | Middle Rio Grande ValleyUSGS+3 | — | 10m 54s | |
| 2/26/26 | Water Update (02/25/26)✨ | snowpackrunoff forecasts+2 | — | the Utton Center’sWater Update | New Mexico’sRio Grande+1 | New Mexicowater update+2 | — | 12m 10s | |
| 2/23/26 | 10: Mapping Aquifers with the NMBGMR✨ | aquiferswater management+2 | Stacy Timmons | water data toolsNMBGMR+3 | New MexicoSocorro | New Mexico Bureau of GeologyHydrology Programs+1 | — | 18m 10s | |
| 2/12/26 | Water Update (02/11/26)✨ | snowpackrunoff forecasts+3 | — | the Natural Resources Conservation Service | New Mexico’sthe Rio Grande+4 | waterforecast+2 | — | 12m 40s | |
| 1/28/26 | Water Update (01/28/26)✨ | snowpackLake Powell+1 | — | Natural Resources Conservation Servicethe US Bureau of Reclamation’s | AlbuquerqueNew Mexico’s+3 | Albuquerquesnowstorm+2 | — | 8m 19s | |
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| 1/26/26 | 9: Water Ambassadors Legislative Priorities✨ | legislationwater sustainability+1 | Dr Ladona Clayton | the New Mexico Water Ambassadorsthe Ogallala Land and Water Conservancy+1 | New Mexico | water ambassadorslegislative goals+1 | — | 22m 04s | |
| 1/14/26 | 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 federal forecast projects flows of less than half the most recent 30-year average on the Rio Grande at Otowi, the key measurement point for central New Mexico, and just 17 percent at San Marcial, just above Elephant Butte Reservoir. With three months of snow-accumulation season left, those numbers will go up or down depending on weather between ... | 14m 22s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 | 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, the chances of actually seeing falling flakes here on Christmas are about one in thirty. But that does not stop Rin Tara and John Fleck from hoping, scanning the long range weather forecasts as they write those last holiday cards and record their last podcast of 2025. | 9m 39s | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | 8: Shortage Sharing | Guest: Stephanie Russo Baca The old Western cliché that whiskey’s for drinking while water is for fighting over has always been problematic. Frequently attributed to Mark Twain, it seems that Twain never said it. And research by the Utton Center’s Stephanie Russo Baca shows that sharing water – ensuring that no one goes dry when the water runs low – is a viable approach to New Mexico water management. In practice, New Mexico’s water law has always had an uneasy relationship with the “doctrine... | 22m 29s | ||||||
| 12/10/25 | 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 contamination questions, and the future of federal clean water regulation. Rio Grande With the irrigation season over and the Rio Grande’s riparian vegetation shutting down for the winter, river flows are up through Albuquerque. But the biggest reason for the high flows is the annual Rio Grande Compact accounting exercise, as water stored in Abiquiu res... | 14m 29s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | 7: Is Water for Fighting Over? | 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 Water in the West, an exploration of water governance in the Colorado River Basin. Amid an often pessimistic literature, led by iconic titles that Fleck read as a young journalist - Mark Reisner's Cadillac Desertand Philip Fradkin's A River No More, among others - Water is For Fighting Over offered an optimistic narrative, stories of a governa... | 30m 29s | ||||||
| 11/12/25 | Water Update (11/12/25) | Rin Tara and John Fleck discuss water conditions in New Mexico for the week of November 10. | 9m 09s | ||||||
| 10/29/25 | 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. | 11m 30s | ||||||
| 10/17/25 | 6: Adaptive Agriculture in Northern New Mexico | 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, Don Bustos' Santa Cruz Farms feels as if it has been there as long as the land itself. A rambling walk through the farm follows ditches carrying the water past patches of asparagus and the last of the blackberries, down one side past some new herbs Bustos is experimenting with - a path the water has traveled for the 400 years this land has been ... | 19m 36s | ||||||
| 9/26/25 | 5: Acequias in New Mexico | Guest: Enrique Romero, head of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo division of the New Mexico Department of Justice Acequias are a traditional irrigation practice with roots across the world. The inhabitants of New Mexico have used ditch irrigation since time immemorial, though the acequias used today took their present form about 400 years ago. Enrique Romero, head of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo division of the New Mexico Department of Justice, explains the history and governance of New Mexi... | 24m 05s | ||||||
| 7/25/25 | 4: Life on the Landscape, Documenting Change | Guest: Craig Allen Formed in a series of volcanic eruptions between 1 and 2 million years ago, the Jemez Mountains dominate the cultural and environmental history of central New Mexico. For more than four decades, forest ecologist Craig Allen has studied them, engaging in what has come to be known as “place-based ecology,” with deep roots in what the Nuevo Mexicanos would call “querencia” – a deep love and sense of place. The resulting of Craig’s passion is a vast body of scientif... | 34m 53s | ||||||
| 7/4/25 | 3: Monsoon Season | New Mexico’s summer monsoon is upon us. The rainy season began the last week of June, bringing moist air north from the Gulf of California – pumping up flows in drying rivers, wetting forested landscapes and in the process reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfires, and perhaps most importantly bringing the visceral joy that of rain. Streaming up through the mountains of central Mexico, the moisture from what scientists call the “North American Monsoon” brings 50 percent or more of t... | 16m 11s | ||||||
| 6/12/25 | 2: The Agro-Ecosystem of the Middle Rio Grande | Guest: Paul Tashjian, Director of Freshwater Conservation for Audubon Southwest The Middle Rio Grande is home to not only a myriad of species, but also to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD). At first blush, environmental water uses, and agricultural water uses may appear to be in conflict, but the truth is more complicated. This month Water Matters hosts Paul Tashjian, Director of Freshwater Conservation for Audubon Southwest, to discuss the agroecosystem of the Middle R... | 33m 48s | ||||||
| 5/9/25 | Deep Dive: Water for the Navajo Nation | Established by treaty in 1868, the modern boundaries of the Navajo Nation span 27,000 square miles across the deserts of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. While its water rights were guaranteed on paper in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1908 Winters decision, getting actual “wet water” to meet the needs of the nation’s 175,000 residents remains a challenge. This month the Utton Center’s Water Matters speaks with attorney Bidtah Becker, a University of New Mexico School of Law graduate who has be... | 32m 09s | ||||||
| 4/2/25 |  1: The San Juan-Chama Project | Guest: Diane Agnew of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority With one of the worst winter snowpacks on record, New Mexico’s water supply forecasts for 2025 look grim. Can we avoid the apocalypse? The Utton Transboundary Resources Center’s Rin Tara and John Fleck talk to Diane Agnew of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority about adapting to the realities of a changing climate. At a time in early spring when the Rio Grande should be rising, swollen w... | 19m 46s | ||||||
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