John Fleck

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 - @jfleck" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fediscience.org/@jfleck )

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: buzzsprout.com/2465964/episod…

🏭 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: buff.ly/KL7I5va

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

@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!

Underlying the trend nationally is a Dept. of Education & Dept. of Labor "workforce alignment" algorithm (the CIP-SOP crosswalk) that does not link philosophy to a specific career & so is worthless. Yet philosophy majors can do ANY job. @DailyNousEditor dailynous.com/2025/08/13/mon…

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

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.

Anne Castle's letter of resignation as US Commissioner on the Upper #ColoradoRiver Commission is worth a read: inkstain.net/2025/01/anne-c…

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

Shopping: nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…

Sometimes you don’t need government. Sometimes you just need a pair of wire cutters: inkstain.net/2024/12/peter-…

#ColoradoRiver 2024-25 water year is off to a lousy start: inkstain.net/2024/12/lousy-…

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: inkstain.net/2024/10/federa… #ColoradoRiver

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.

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

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 - citydesk.org/2024/water-aut…

Thinking about, and trying to visualize, changes in Albuquerque’s aquifer over the last 50 years #NMwater datawrapper.dwcdn.net/hbQfH/1/https:…

“Sense of place” has always been A Thing™️ for me, particular surrounding learning about, grappling with, and loving rivers. It’s great to have friends who’re similar, like @jfleck — having someone to bounce ideas off makes for a great field trip. inkstain.net/2024/07/hoover…