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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 that allowed us to build bigger dams and bigger cities and larger farming communities. The science was...

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 partnership with WheatonArts. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Delaware River Watershed Conse...