John Fleck

Writer in Residence, Utton Center, @UNM_Law. Writing a book about the Rio Grande and the making of Albuquerque

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You've been a great audience, thanks so much. Be sure to tip your servers!

(On "Twitter book sabbatical", so not around here much. You can still track me down in the fediverse, which takes less brain space - https://t.co/ZAasqfl4Uq )

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It's a city book: https://t.co/0LBSpvAo01

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Our new book is about to emerge into the world, and I'm thinking through complexity to to the simplicity of what we're trying to say:

[AERE @AereOrg]

📢 Out now in the 🌿March 2026 issue🌿 issue of #JAERE! 📢
"Sending Agricultural Water to the Salton Sea to Improve Public Health? An Integrated Agri-Hydro-Health Economic Analysis" by Benjamin A. Jones, Jingjing Wang, and John Fleck.
Read it here: https://t.co/tfEB2c9bLY

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Ten years on, taking a look back at my book Water is For Fighting Over. What did I get right? Wrong? With my excellent colleague Rin Tara: https://t.co/bc7cPEwLNP

[AERE @AereOrg]

🏭 Just accepted in #JAERE! 🏭
"Sending Agricultural Water to The Salton Sea to Improve Public Health? An Integrated Agri-Hydro-Health Economic Analysis" by Benjamin A. Jones, Jingjing Wang (@JWang_Econ), and John Fleck (@jfleck).
Read it here: https://t.co/Iu3lAlSQOB

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https://t.co/hvkD8Ok79i

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Driest year on New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande since 1972. Or maybe 1964? (link below)

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@anecdotal @DailyNousEditor Philosophy undergrad. 35 year career as a journalist. Weird post-newspaper quasi-academic life. I know, I know, *post hoc, ergo propter hoc*, but it worked pretty well for me!

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https://t.co/h5e9PNVTSh

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Reviving my #ColoradoRiver "deadpool diaries" series. Apparently the new Twitter err I mean X trick is to do "link in the next post"?

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https://t.co/6CYIVrc9YQ

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Buckling up for a wild 2025 ride on New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande. In the replies, a link to my summary of what I'm watching.

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Anne Castle's letter of resignation as US Commissioner on the Upper #ColoradoRiver Commission is worth a read: https://t.co/zdu20OSMKD

[RideEveryTile @RideEveryTile]

A lot of respect for the planning that must have gone into this.

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Shopping: https://t.co/eI4h4EdKMd

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Sometimes you don’t need government. Sometimes you just need a pair of wire cutters: https://t.co/9ZezT4faT3

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#ColoradoRiver 2024-25 water year is off to a lousy start: https://t.co/elgNbOnB9I

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Judge criticizes federal environmental review of Denver Water’s Gross Reservoir for failing to consider the risk of a Colorado River Compact call on Upper Basin water users: https://t.co/ARV9utgVu9 #ColoradoRiver

[Jeffrey Kightlinger @8thGenCA]

Lower Basin States have put a proposal on the table to balance the River and bring it into sustainability. Tough plan w painful cuts, particularly in Arizona and California. Needs to be implemented.

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Here’s the first big story I wrote, from 2008:

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The Air Force’s slow-walking of the cleanup of its groundwater contamination mess under Albuquerque hasn’t changed since I was covering this *ten years ago* for @ABQJournal - https://t.co/Lk2D5MRrQ3