How to Keep Cool
Other suggestions include keeping sleigh bells around to jingle when looking at thermometer. This was apparently before the widespread use of refrigerated air. h/t Yesterday’s Print and my precious university library privileges.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Now out in paperback (and perhaps timely given the chaos?): Science Be Dammed – How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
Our friends at the University of Arizona Press have kindly printed a bunch of new copies of our book Science Be Dammed, this time in paperback so it’s cheaper! Eric and I did a fun Q&A with Abby Mogollon at the press to accompany this second launch: Q: Why did you embark on this project? …
Why don’t they redo the Colorado River Compact?
My co-instructor Bob Berrens and I added a slide this morning to our welcome lecture for first-year students in the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program, hoping to foreshadow two questions we’ll be asking the students over and over and over and over this semester: Bob: That sounds great, how are you going to …
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The Magic of Radio
When I was a little kid, the Fleck family had a big box with a radio and a record player and speakers in the family room. Radio was always magical to me, and when I was at my littlest I imagined a man inside the box, scrunched up and holding a guitar, talking and singing …
Sources of Controversy in the Law of the River – Larry MacDonnell
As we lumber toward a renegotiation of the operating rules on the Colorado River, one of the challenges folks in basin management face is the differing understandings of the Law of the River. There’s stuff we all know, or think we know, or stuff Lower Basin folks think they know that Upper Basin people may …
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“We can’t have land back without water back.” – Julia Bernal
Via Laura Gersony at Circle of Blue, a look at the work of Julia Bernal, leader of the Pueblo Action Alliance and a really interesting thinker on land and water here in the Southwest: She is an advocate of the Land Back movement, which calls on the U.S. government to allow Indigenous people to continue …
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Cold Facts … and Death
I ran across this Arizona Republic cartoon some years ago while working on my book Water is For Fighting Over etc. I found it in a 1985 book by Frank Welsh called How to Create a Water Crisis. It reared its head this week as I’m working with some colleagues on some stuff about Arizona …
Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Oxbow
Mary Harner and I tagged along yesterday morning out in the Rio Grande Oxbow with Wes Noe, a UNM Water Resources Program/Community and Regional Planning student who is doing his masters project at field sites there. Loyal readers will remember remember my travels with Mary, a University of Nebraska colleague studying the Rio Grande. Wes …
New Mexico’s Rio Grande, bailed out by an impressive monsoon
A robust July monsoon has allayed our worst fears about central New Mexico’s Rio Grande. Is it really a “monsoon”? Back in the days when my paid gig was writing newspaper stories, I loved writing about the monsoon, and every time I did I would get helpful feedback from readers anxious to explain that I …
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Most Albuquerque: Green Chile in the Bike Lane
A most Albuquerque summer morning for a bike ride: Muggy monsoon dewpoint Muddy storm-fed Rio Grande The smell of green chiles roasting, early, in the El Super parking lot This lone green chile in the eastbound bike lane over the Rio Grande