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RECENT EVENTS
17th Annual Statewide Meeting
The 17th Annual Statewide Meeting was held on January 13, 2011, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque.
The theme of this year's meeting was "Economic Stress: Hard Times for Water Planning and Management?" A comprehensive
summary of the meeting is in the Spring 2011 issue of Dialogue.
Regional Water Planners' Workshop - Thursday,
September 16, 2010
This event was part of the Dialogue's
ongoing efforts to strengthen and integrate regional and state water planning, a day-long workshop focused on the challenges
and prospects of regional water planning, held at the Sevilleta NWR research facility near Socorro. It was a working meeting,
and was free for the attendees. The agenda included reports from regional water planners on their progress and challenges
(12 of the 16 state's water planning regions were represented) and review of the Dialogue's proposed template
for updating RWPs. The facilitator's notes, electronic versions of reports from some of the regions, a summary report
prepared for the Dialogue by Lisa Robert, and related documents will be posted (accessed by links to be added below)
as they become available.
Jemez y Sangre (Reg. 3) Report
SW NM (Reg. 4) Report (revised)
MRG (Reg. 12) Slides (.ppt format)
RWP Update Template (11/08 Dialogue Draft)
Facilitator's notes (draft)
In addition, Karl Wood (who represented the Lower
Rio Grande Region) has provided this link to the proceedings of last year's WRRI conference on Water
Planning in a Time of Uncertainty. They can be found at: http://wrri.nmsu.edu/publish/watcon/proc54/proc54.html
The Dialogue's 16th Annual Statewide Meeting
"State Water Planning: A Path Forward?"
January 14th,
2010 - Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Agenda
8:00
On-site registration
8:30 Welcome and introductions
8:45
Keynote: Helen Ingram, Research
Fellow, Southwest Center, University of
Arizona and Warmington Chair Emerita, University of California at Irvine.
* “No Universal Remedies: Place and Politics
Matter in Water Governance"
9:45 Break
10:00 * Panel
– Facing Conflicting Priorities and Other Challenges
Moderator: John Fleck, Albuquerque Journal
Rolf Schmidt-Petersen, Rio Grande bureau chief, New Mexico
Interstate Stream Commission
Denise Fort, professor of law, UNM Law School
Andrew Lieuwen, water rights manager, Albuquerque Bernalillo County
Water Utility Authority
Jason John, principal hydrologist, Navajo Nation Department of Water
Resources
Janet Jarratt - agriculture and water advocate
12:00 LUNCH
1:00
Panel – Exploring Conflicts and Political Issues Raised by Water Transfers
and Public Welfare
* Gary Esslinger, treasurer/manager, Elephant Butte Irrigation District
* Anita Hand, rancher, Catron County * Dutch Salmon, avid angler; member, New Mexico State Game
Commission * Michael Benson, member, Navajo Nation Water Management Branch;
Nation's technical support team for the New Mexico San Juan River
water rights settlement negotiations.
2:30 Break
2:45
Panel – Competing Interests in the Face of Future Changes
* Reed Benson, professor of law, UNM Law School
* Dave Gutzler, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UNM * Jean Witherspoon, former employee, Albuquerque Bernalillo County
Water Utility Authority
3:45 Summation and Nominations for the Dialogue Board of
Directors
4:00
Close
* Slides, transcripts, or summaries of all presentations
are available. Click on options below.
Ingram talk - notes with slides.
Panel 1 presentation summaries (all)
Panel 2 presentation summaries (Hand, M.Benson)
Esslinger presentation slides
MH Salmon panel presentation.
Panel 3 presentation summary (R.Benson)
Gutzler presentation slides
Witherspoon presentation slides
==========================================================The Dialogue's 15th Annual Statewide Meeting
"Bringing Accountability to Water Planning: Do We Need
a Crisis?"
Thursday, January 15, 2009 Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque Transcripts
of most presentations (starred (*) on the agenda below) are available for download, as either MS Word or PDF files. Credit
and thanks are due to Lisa Robert, who prepared and edited the transcripts from audio tapes recorded at the meeting,
and to Elaine Hebard, who "threaded" slides with the text files, to create "seamless" documents. To
read or download the presentations, click on the underlined panel title. BRINGING
ACCOUNTABILITY TO WATER PLANNING: DOES IT TAKE A CRISIS? AGENDA 8:30 Welcome and introductions
8:45 Key
Challenges
Panel 1: The Consequences of Being Overdrawn
Economic: *Lee
Brown, Ph.D., principal, H2O Economics
Interstate
Compact Compliance: *Kevin Flanigan, hydrologist, ISC Environment: *Alan
Hamilton, Ph.D., Conservation Director,
New Mexico
Wildlife Federation 10:15 Panel 2: The Consequences of Being Overdrawn (continued)
Agriculture: Janet Jarratt, agriculture and water advocate Tribal: *Regis
Pecos, former governor; member, Cochiti Pueblo Tribal
Council Municipal: *Jean
Witherspoon, New Mexico Water Conservation Alliance;
former water conservation manager, Albuquerque Water Utility
Division 1:00 Panel 3: Making Up the Deficit
Paula Garcia, executive
director, New Mexico Acequia Association Norm
Gaume, consultant, former Interstate Stream Commission Director
*Jim McCord, senior hydrogeologist, water resource engineer,
AMEC-Hydrosphere 2:30 Panel 4: No One Else is Going to Bail Us Out
*Dale Dekker, AIA, AICP, architect, Dekker, Perich, Sabatini
*David Gutzler, Ph.D., professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Simeon
Herskovits, attorney, Advocates for Community and Environment 3:45 Summation
and Nominations for the Dialogue Board of Directors
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The Dialogue's 14th Annual Statewide Meeting
- Friday, January 11, 2008.
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