{"id":15437,"date":"2020-01-14T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2020-06-02T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:44:55","slug":"our-land-water-expert-john-fleck-and-the-colorado-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/our-land-water-expert-john-fleck-and-the-colorado-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Land: Water Expert John Fleck and the Colorado River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Land: Water Expert John Fleck and the Colorado River\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TS0sECGiBTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>January 10, 2020 \u2013 In this month\u2019s installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus sits down with John Fleck, co-author of the new book <a href=\"https:\/\/uapress.arizona.edu\/book\/science-be-dammed\">\u201cScience Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River.\u201d<\/a> Along with Eric Kuhn, Fleck looks back at the beginning of the West\u2019s attempt to apportion the water in the great river. 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