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The Utton Transboundary Resources Center’s Water Matters! podcast looks at water and natural resources issues in New Mexico and beyond. Housed at the University of New Mexico School of Law, the Utton Transboundary Resources Center is a state-funded research and public service project that believes in the pursuit of well informed, collaborative solutions to our natural resource challenges. The Utton Transboundary Resources Center’s Sairis Perez-Gomez designed the podcast logo and wrote and performed our theme music and Student Research Assistant Francesca Glaspell produced this episode.
Rin Tara is a staff attorney specializing in water policy and governance at the Utton Transboundary Resources Center. They are primarily interested in questions of water management in the face of climate change. They have done work in riparian restoration, river connectivity, tribal water sovereignty, climate change adaptation, and water rights. They have authored several papers on topics related to the future of western water management.
John Fleck is Writer in Residence at the Utton Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico School of Law; and Professor of Practice in Water Policy and Governance in the University of New Mexico Department of Economics. The former director of the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program, he is the author of four books on water in the west, including the forthcoming history of Albuquerque’s relationship with the Rio Grande – Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of a Modern American City.
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- Water Update (10/28/26) · 13 dkThe Great San Juan Flood In this week’s Water Update*, Rin Tara and John Fleck give a rundown on the dramatic flooding on the San Juan River and across the Four Corners as the…
- 18: Talking About New Mexico’s Water Challenges with State Water Leader Tanya Trujillo · 38 dkGuest: Tanya Trujillo This month Rin Tara and John Fleck are joined by Tanya Trujillo, water policy advisor to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state’s deputy state engineer…
- Water Update (10/14/26) · 15 dkPreparing for what we hope will be a wet winter While the aftereffects of Septembers flooding have left many New Mexico communities still digging out, the water supply impacts…
- Water Update (09/23/26) · 11 dkThe 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…
- 17: Understanding the History Behind How We Manage the Colorado River · 31 dkGuest: 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…
- Water Update (09/09/26) · 18 dkA 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…
- Water Update (08/26/26) · 10 dkA 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…
- 16: Discussing the Post-2026 FEIS with the Wilburys vol. I · 36 dkGuests: 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…
- Water Update (08/12/2026) · 23 dkA Dry Year Gets Drier This week Rin Tara and John Fleck do their best to find hope, but in a year this dry it takes more work. Note that at the time of posting this episode, the…
- Water Update (07/29/26) · 14 dkIt rained! On this week’s water update, Rin Tara and John Fleck talk about the joy of a summer rainstorm, as Albuquerque was drenched by a monsoon storm Friday, July 24*, wetting…
- 15: John Fleck on Tending the Middle Rio Grande Garden · 35 dkIn this week’s Water Matters, John Fleck switches from the host’s chair to the guest’s chair (it’s really the same chair) as co-host Rin Tara sits down with him to talk about the…
- Water Update (07/09/26) · 18 dkLots of news on this week’s Water Matters. Kelsey Fendler rows the Pacific (paywalled)Mark Olalde, Alex Hager, and Sharon Chischilly on the Northeastern Arizona water…
- Water Update (06/24/26) · 13 dkHunting for signs of hope in a hot, dry June With a high pressure system parked over the Four Corners, Albuquerque has been hot and dry, and in this week’s episode Rin Tara and…
- 14: A “Super” El Niño is coming. What does it mean for New Mexico? · 30 dkGuest: Aidan Manning This week Rin Tara and John Fleck are joined by Aidan Manning from New Mexico Wild’s Rivers and Waters Program to talk about El Niño and what it means for…
- Water Update (06/10/26) · 11 dkA Drying Rio Grande This week Rin Tara and John Fleck provide an update on the increasingly dry conditions on New Mexico’s central river system, where flows on the Rio Grande at…
- 13: Managing the Water in a Very Tough Year · 20 dk · Bölüm 13Guest: Anne Marken Anne Marken gets up every morning and looks at snowpack data and river flow numbers. As the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District’s River Operations and…
- Water Update (05/20/26) · 9 dkFor the May 20 Water Update, Rin and John step away from discussing the bleak water numbers and take some time to talk about the moral obligation of hope, municipal water system…
- Water Update (05/06/26) · 13 dkIn 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…
- Water Update (04/22/26) · 12 dkThere is no way to sugar coat the bad water news pill as 2026 enters what should be the rising limb of the runoff season, as Rin Tara and John Fleck report in this week's water…
- 12: Tucker Davidson on Birds and Hope · 26 dkGuest: Tucker Davidson It seemed unfair – asking Tucker Davidson to name his favorite bird. A senior water associate at Audubon Southwest, Davidson is a hopeless bird nerd –…
