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The images from Elephant Butte Dam are stark and frightening. Water levels have dipped to about 8% t ...

The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences recently announced its new Regents’ Professors for the Annual Years 2022-2024. Regents’ Professor is a special title bestowed on selected full professors who, in the judgment of the dean, and...

3:46 So let’s do some history first. When did hydrologists first start warning people that the Colorado River didn’t have as much water as they wanted it to have? This goes all the way back to the early 20th century when we were first planning dams and canals for the farms and the cities, and there were hydrologists who warned that the Colorado River was subject to some really deep droughts that could last a long time. The work was generally ignored in favor of more optimistic estimates th...

Climate change threatens the availability of water in the Colorado River basin and water managers need to take steps now to prepare, the director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico John Fleck and Brad Udall, the senior water and climate research scientist at the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State […]

Circle Oasis Building an urban eco-landscape at WheatonArts will have lasting benefits for community and environment. Drone photo of WheatonArts Circle, captured by CU Maurice River volunteer Tom McKee, shows rain gardens, pollinator gardens and grass pathways. by Karla Rossini, CU Maurice River The CU Maurice River and Rutgers University’s Cooperative Extension Service’s Water Resources Program have recently completed a large green infrastructure installation in pa...

In downtown Jersey City, Dr. Michael Conti Public School No.5 (PS5) uses project-based learning to encourage kids to think about solutions to real-life problems affecting their community. In this dive...

NMiF talks with CD1 Libertarian congressional candidate Chris Manning May 12, 2021 This week on New Mexico in Focus, Libertarian congressional candidate Chris Manning speaks with producer Matt Grubs. The Libertarian Party selected the military veteran as their candidate in the June 1 special election to replace Deb Haaland.  The Line opinion panel looks at the implications of the New Mexico Republican Party’s decision to hold its spring convention in Texas. Party leaders say limitation...

In late March, New Mexico’s largest newspaper ran a story about how 2020 set records for oil and gas production in the state: More fossil fuels were pumped out of the ground last year than ever before. The Albuquerque Journal story, published in a weekly stand-alone business section, quoted a pair of company owners and an industry spokesperson. The original story was rewritten and repackaged by other outlets both in and outside of New Mexico.  Join our email list to get the stories that mai...

John Fleck Fleck has been director of the program since 2016. His work, as an academic and a writer for popular audiences, is focused on the Colorado River Basin - its problems as climate change collides with population growth, and its solutions, as communities learn to collaborate in the task of using less water. His service as Water Resources Program director is an extension of that work, helping a new generation of water managers develop the technical skills and policy understanding needed t...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... As Central New Mexico enters an unprecedented drought year, we are at risk of losing one of our most important tools for monitoring the health of the Rio Grande. For the past quarter century, the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program – BEMP to its friends and supporters – has collected data on 160 ...