The
Water Assembly is now the
Middle Rio Grande Water
Advocates.
We strongly recommend you visit
our new website MRGWaterAdvocates.org
MRGWaterAdvocates.org
This Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly
website, WaterAssembly.org, is not being maintained.
We are keeping this old website
available because it contains archival data that might be useful.
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House
Memorial 1 in 2017 requested a proposal for the 2019 legislative
session
on how New Mexico water planning in the future
should be accomplished.
The HM1 Working group developed a summary
proposal document entitled
Making
the Case for Change.
along with three draft
legislative bills to implement the recommended changes:
Summary
of the three bills
Citizens’
development process for the three House bills
Citizens’
development process for the two Senate bills
HB174
– Middle Rio Grande water management
SB558
– Middle Rio Grande water management
HB186 -
Making water planning effective
SB560 -
Making water planning effective
HB187 -
Recommending water law changes
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The Water Advocates purpose is to create a sustainable, resilient water future for
the Middle Rio Grande (Otowi Bridge to
Elephant Butte Dam) by seeking allies, advocating for, and demanding
water management and administration decisions and actions consistent
with best available science and applicable law.
Water Advocates' 18th Council at
UNM
November 10, 2018 8:30am to 2:30pm
Making
the Case for Change
Too Many Promises, Too Little Water
A Call to Action!
The session report: slides, audio, etc.
The Water Advocates 18th
Council on November 10, 2018 focused
on presenting the concepts in that proposal
document and considering
how to promote some or all of those
concepts.
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Selected Coming Events
Water Advocates Board of Directors Meeting:
Monday,
July 1, 2019 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Mario's
Pizzeria & Ristorante, 5700 Fourth Street NW
Albuquerque,
New Mexico 87107
Location
Map Draft
Board Agenda
Draft
Previous Minutes
Comments on the July 2018 draft State Water Plan
ISC requested for
public comment on the draft
State Water Plan.
In response, the Water Advocates Board
appointed a subcommittee that
collected comments from Directors, organized
the comments, and
submitted the Water
Advocates comments to the ISC
Major Activities At This Time:
The MRG
Regional Water Plan Update
Governance
Study Group (GSG) Participation
The
Quarterly Debate Project
The MRG
Futures Project
Recent Events:
Seventeenth Water Assembly - October 22, 2016 -
9am-3pm
"Managing the River to
Failure - Is There a Better Way?"
at the University of New
Mexico's Dane Smith Hall, Room 125
Agenda with links to speakers' slides and
audio
Sixteenth Water Assembly - March 21, 2015 -
9am-3pm
"Climate Disruption and
Our Water Future - Mitigate, Adapt or Suffer
- A
Call for New Strategies"
at the University of New
Mexico's Dane Smith Hall, Room 123
Agenda with links to slides and discussion
notes
Water Assembly Public Forum:
Our Water Imbalance - Creating
Adaptive Strategies Together
Saturday June
28, 2014 9:00 am - 12:30
pm
(continental
breakfast at 8:30 am)
UNM Dane Smith Hall,
Room 120
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Fifteenth
Annual Water Assembly - November 5, 2011 - 9am-4pm
"Choosing Our
Future" - Scenario Planning
at the University of New
Mexico's Dane Smith Hall, Room 125
Assembly presentations, discussion, and
initial scenario attributes
Fourteenth Annual Water Assembly
June 12, 2010
"2025 ... A Water
Prophecy?" ... The
prophecy text
at the University of New
Mexico's Dane Smith Hall, Room 125
Assembly presentations and discussions
An Informational Forum
Aquifer
Recharge, Storage & Recovery: Boon or Boondoggle?
April 9, 2011 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
at the University of New
Mexico's Law School, Room 2402
Location
Map Invitational
Flyer Agenda
with links to slides and audio
A Land and Water Workshop
Sponsored by the UNM Utton Center
"Integrating
Land Use and Water Planning in New Mexico"
April 8, 2011
8:30am-4:00pm, Sheraton Uptown, Albuquerque, NM
Documents
Regional Water Plan Update
Submissions -
The Water Assembly submitted water planning
information (planning principles, update considerations, future
strategies, technical data, and summary of public meeting) to
MRCOG's Steering Committee with a recommendation that the material
be included in the Steering Committee's submission to the ISC,
along with the Steering Committee's other products (status
evaluation of 2004 Plan recommedations, a
selection of possible projects, and a public involvement plan
for the update). Following are
links to the draft submissions
Water
Assembly Submission to Steering Committee
Water
Planning Information Package (1.3 Mb)
Steering
Committee Submission to ISC
Future
Project List (0.2 Mb)
Public
Involvement Plan (0.3 Mb)
The Middle Rio Grande Water
Budget - Averages for 1972-1997
A Technical Basis for the 2004 Regional Water
Plan
View the
Water Budget Document (0.3 Mb)
(also see Chapter
6 of the Regional Water Plan for more
detail)
Water Assembly Annual Report 2018-2019
President's
Annual Report - July 1, 2019 (0.4 Mb)
2019 Legislation
New
Mexico Water Conservation Alliance’s legislation list (1.0 Mb)
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