Middle Rio Grande Water Advocates (formerly the Water Assembly)
Governance Study Group
The Regional Water Planning Update Process
Background-The New Mexico Water Dialogue
held a meeting on July 28, 2015 of water planners from regions across
the state at the Sevilleta National Wildlife
Refuge. The topic was lessons learned from the current regional
water planning update process. Twelve of the sixteen regions in
the state as well as the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission (ISC)
were represented. A wide range of positive and negative
experiences were reported and described in the facilitator's meeting
summary.
Governance
Study Group- As a result of the discussions, a self-selected set of
folks from around the state, including several Water Assembly
participants, agreed to have some follow-up meetings to study aspects
of issues that had been raised and to make recommendations on how to
proceed. One of the primary otpics was the
means for governance of water in the state. The group, called
"Governance Study Group" (GSG), met numerous times by teleconference
and in person. They produced a report consisting of an
introduction and six issue papers (links below). The group willcontunue to
meet with the general objective of addiing
detail and promoting implementation of the recommendations.
The
GSG Report -The report was issued on December 4, 2015 and reviewed
with the ISC staff. Staff seemed to concur with most of the
recommendations and requested the group to proceed further.
Comment
and/or Participate - Please send a message if
you have comments on the report and/or would like to participate with
the ongoing activities of the group
