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Water Update (09/23/26)

2026-09-2310:30

The Rains Return On this week’s episode, Rin Tara and John Fleck talk about Rin’s trip down Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River (totally work related!) while John stayed home and obsessed over weather radar and river gage readings as the Rio Grande, dry along large stretches through Central New Mexico for much of the summer, finally reconnected. To understand Cataract Canyon, check out the Returning Rapids ProjectTaos tightens water conservation measuresWednesday, Sept. 23, at the Gui...

17: Understanding the History Behind How We Manage the Colorado River

2026-09-1831:20

Guest: Eric Kuhn “We need to understand the history.” - Eric Kuhn This week Rin Tara and John Fleck are joined on Water Matters by their longtime friend and collaborator Eric Kuhn, arguably the preeminent historian of the intersection between Colorado River hydrology and the evolution of the institutions developed to manage it. Their subject is the arcane but now critically important issues of the Colorado River Basin’s “Upper Basi...

Water Update (09/09/26)

2026-09-0917:50

A River (Ever So Briefly) Returns This week’s water update is a special edition as Rin Tara and John Fleck take you out to the Rio Grand in Central Albuquerque to experience the brief return of the Rio Grande to a river bed that has been dry for most of the summer. Rin and John were there, tape recorder in hand, on Thursday (Sept. 3, 2026) at midday as a pulse of water provided by the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, and Audubo...

Water Update (08/26/26)

2026-08-2609:40

A Search for Silver Linings The water numbers remain grim in this week’s Water Update, with 97 miles of drying in the New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande, which is not a record large number only because it rained enough to drop this week’s number beneath last week’s 100 miles of drying. But Rin Tara and John Fleck soldier on, searching for signs of hope in an otherwise grim water situation: Money for Albuquerque’s aquifer storage and recovery projectTortugas Dam rehabilitation project New Mex...

16: Discussing the Post-2026 FEIS with the Wilburys vol. I

2026-08-2136:20

Guests: Kathryn Sorensen and Jack Schmidt This week Rin Tara and John Fleck are joined by friends and colleagues Kathryn Sorensen and Jack Schmidt – members of the group that journalist Allen Best dubbed The Traveling Wilburys of the Colorado River – to talk about the future of management of the Colorado River. Tara, Fleck, Sorensen, and Schmidt – along with fellow Wilburys Anne Castle and Eric Kuhn – have been collaborating for a number of years on analysis and recommendations for Colorado R...

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