Writer in Residence, Utton Center, @UNM_Law. Writing a book about the Rio Grande and the making of Albuquerque
"a curious guy with good typing skills"
Mar 20, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
The #ColoradoRiver news we heard at last week's @sjquinney symposium was stark. As the reservoirs behind Hoover and Glen Canyon dams drop, we have huge problems. But the biggest news you didn't hear is worth noting too.
A thread (1/n)
@sjquinney#ColoradoRiver water users are currently consuming 14-15 million acre feet from a river that's only offered 12.3maf in the 21st century. (See drained reservoirs as a result). (2/n)
Aug 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
As we await this afternoon's entirely unsurprising #ColoradoRiver shortage declaration, a few thoughts from Science Be Dammed - How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River, by @R_EricKuhn and myself. (1/n)
(Out this week in paperback from our friends at @AZpress - timing-wise, it's better to be lucky than to be good - uapress.arizona.edu/book/science-b… )
