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Water Assembly 2015 Conference:
"Climate
Disruption and Our Water Future
Mitigate, Adapt or Suffer - A
Call for New Strategies"
9:00 am
- 3:00 pm, Saturday, March 21, 2015
UNM Dane Smith Hall, Room
125
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Op-Ed Article
Speakers
include: Link to
Biographies
o Melinda
Harm Benson
o Tom
Blaine, State Engineer
o John
Brown
o Kim
Eichhorst
o David
Gutzler
o Michael
Jensen
o Phil
King
o Howard
Passell
o Susan
Rich
o Bruce
Thomson
o Bob
Wessely
Overview:
We are experiencing increasingly frequent extreme weather
events. As has been said in many
other venues, we have a choice -- to mitigate, adapt or suffer!
While there is a Regional Water Plan for the three
county-area (Sandoval, Bernalillo and Valencia), it is ten years
old. This event is one of our
opportunities to review the Plan and determine what changes need to be
made so as to ease our way into a changing climate.
The Sixteenth Water Assembly will explore, with speakers
and extensive audience participation, how we might deal with four or
five of the different climate consequences we are facing and will most
likely continue to face.
The resulting approaches will be carried forward beyond
the Assembly to inform and augment the ongoing update to the Middle Rio
Grande (MRG) Regional Water Plan (RWP), as well as to inform the state
agencies and other regions within the state that are updating their respective
water plans.
The consequences we will discuss at the Assembly are:
o Watershed Degradation
o Intense Precipitation
Events and Flooding
o Protracted Drought / Surface Water Shortages
o Decline of Groundwater
and Underground Water Flows
o Ecosystem Degradation and Climate Migration
For each of these consequences, we want
attendees to identify and discuss some actions that can deal with the
particular consequence, and also to identify possible impacts or
negative consequences of those actions.
Agenda:
8:30 Continental Breakfast
Link to introductory slides
Link to contents slides
The
Changed Climate Has Consequences
9:00 Welcome - Introduction to the Water
Assembly
Bob
Wessely
9:10 Water Plan History
Bob Wessely
Link to slides (2.94 MB)
9:20 Technical Supply and Demand Situation
Bruce
Thomson
Link to slides (0.56 MB)
9:30 Water supply long-term forecast
David
Gutzler
Link to slides (0.53 MB)
9:40 New Mexico’s Governance
of Water
John
R. Brown
Link to slides (0.77 MB)
9:55A Framework of
Resilience
Melinda
Harm Benson
Link to slides (1.04 MB)
10:10 Audience
Questions and Comments
Link to discussion notes (0.17 MB)
10:20 Break
10:35 Setting the Stage - Questions for Each Consequence
Howard
Passell, facilitator
Watershed
and Storm Consequences
10:45 First Consequence – Watershed Degradation
Susan
Rich
Link to
slides (5.88 MB)
11:00 Facilitated Audience Discussion
Link to
discussion notes (0.19
MB)
11:20 Second Consequence - Intense Precipitation Events and
Flooding
Michael
Jensen
Link to
slides (3.49 MB)
11:35 Facilitated Audience Discussion
Link to
discussion notes (0.18
MB)
11:55 Explanation of Advocacy Group Elections
Elaine
Hebard
Link to
slides (0.19 MB)
12:00 Advocacy Groups’ Working Lunch
Drought,
Groundwater and Ecosystem Consequences
1:00 Third Consequence - Protracted Drought / Surface Water
Shortages
Phil
King
1:15 Fourth Consequence - Decline of Groundwater &
Underground Flows
Phil
King
Link to
slides (3.44 MB)
1:30 Facilitated Audience
Discussion
Link to
discussion notes (0.20
MB)
2:10 Fifth Consequence - Ecosystem Degradation and Climate
Migration
Kim
Eichhorst
Link to
slides (17.26 MB)
2:25 Facilitated Audience
Discussion
Link to
discussion notes (0.17
MB)
Link to flip
chart notes (0.17 MB)
Discussion
of Next Steps
2:45 How Will Today’s
Suggestions Feed into the RWP Update?
Tom
Blaine, State Engineer
2:55 Final Words
Bob
Wessely
Link to
slides (0.21 MB)
3:00 Adjourn Water Assembly
Conference
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3:05
NewBoard of Directors Meeting
3:10
Adjourn Board of Directors Meeting
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