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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!
New Mexico is faced with, but has not
faced up to, important water resource limitations: downstream delivery
obligations, federally mandated requirements, and state-permitted water
uses and authorizations that substantially exceed sustainable supplies.
Without action to address articulated problems, our current and future
water supplies as well as our pocketbooks are at risk.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
8:30am – 2:30pm
UNM
Dane Smith Hall, Room 125
Albuquerque, NM
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overview
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Handouts, Speaker
Slides, Audio Recordings, Prepared Scripts,
and Pre-Meeting
Background Documentation
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Handout Documents included:
o Invitation
Poster/Flyer
o Advance Press
Release
o Council
Agenda
o Speaker
Biographies
o Interest
Group Mission Descriptions
The Overview:
o Introductory
Slides
o Contents
Slides
The Session:
8:30 Welcome -
Introduction to the Water Advocates
Bob Wessely,
President, Water Advocates
audio (4.3 MB) script (0.2 MB)
Why Change Is Needed / Why We Need to
Act
8:45
We’re
Getting Hotter and Dryer. and Will Continue to Do So
Dagmar
Llewellyn, Hydrologist
slides (4.0 MB)
audio (18.3 MB)
9:00
Addressing Our
New Normal
Laura Paskus, Environmental Journalist
slides (2.8 MB)
audio (14.2 MB)
9:10
Stories from the
Region – Introduction to the panel, Elaine Hebard
audio
Agricultural
Impacts, Marcia Fernandez, Irrigator
audio (4.2 MB)
Neglect
– Groundwater Sources Drying, Lynn Montgomery, Mayordomo
slides (6.4 MB)
audio (5.2 MB)
Environmental
Impacts, Gina Dello Russo, Riparian Ecologist
slides (1.1 MB)
audio (5.1 MB)
Recreational
Impacts, Stacy Timmons, Hydrogeologist
slides (4.5 MB)
audio (6.3 MB)
Urban
Impacts, Judith Phillips, Landscape Designer
audio (4.7 MB)
9:45
The Need for
Bold Leadership
Adrian
Oglesby, Director, UNM Utton Center
audio (14.4 MB)
10:00
Break
10:15
A Pueblo
Perspective
Kai-T Blue-Sky (unavailable)
10:15 The Importance
o Soils in Adaptation
Jeff Goebel (last minute substitute)
audio (7.3 MB)
House Memorial 1 (2017) – The Requested Proposal
for Action
10:30 Making the Case for Change
Theresa
Cardenas and Bob Wessely, Members of the HM1 Working Group
slides (1.3
MB) script (0.3 MB)
audio-part 1 (10.3 MB) audio-part 2 (70.6 MB)
Making Water Planning Effective –
Further Detail on Proposed Strategies
Members of the twelve-person HM1 Working Group
(audio included in “audio-part 2”, above)
The Role of
Water Planning, Bob Wessely
script (0.2 MB)
Hydrologic
Regional Boundaries, Bob Wessely slide (0.4 MB)
script (0.2 MB)
Water
Budgets and Balances, Norm Gaume
Plan
Approval and Implementation, Theresa Cardenas
AWRM and
RG Compact Compliance, Norm Gaume
State,
Regional, and Local Roles, Theresa Cardenas
Adequate
Funding, Theresa Cardenas
11:40
Election of
Water Advocates’ Board Members, Explanation
Elaine Hebard, Vice President, Water Advocates
11:45
Lunch and
Election of Water Advocates’ Board of Directors
Taking Action – Moving from Concept to Action
audio for the following Wessely, Solomon, Necochea (73.2 MB)
12:45 Making Change: Proposed Legislation
HM1
Proposed Legislation, Bob Wessely
slides (0.4 MB)
Complimentary
Legislation, Tom Solomon
slides (4.7 MB)
Questions
and Comments
1:15 Organizing Ourselves to Make Change Happen
Virginia Necochea, Director of CESOSS
slides (0.5 MB) amplification of slide 4 (click
the circles that appear)
2:00 Governor –Elect Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Water
Plan:
An Opportunity to Make Change Happen
Dr. John Michiner
slides (0.4 MB) audio (15.9 MB)
Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Water Plan (0.4 MB)
2:15 Wrap-Up and Adjourn
Elaine Hebard
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Background Documentation:
House Memorial 1 (2017) - Making the Case for Change:
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.
The Water Advocates Council on November 10, 2018 will focus on
presenting the concepts in that proposal document Making the
Case for Change and
consider how to promote some or all of those concepts.
Presentation to the New Mexico Legislature:
Making the
Case for Change was presented to
the New Mexico State Legislature’s Interim Committee on Water and
Natural Resources in Roswell on October 2, 2018. Following are links to the
components of the presentation:
Presentation
Slides
Presentation
Script
Presentation
Audio (big file; slow download)
The November 10 Council will identify the next steps to build
the political will for legislators now to take the necessary enabling
remedial actions.
Ancillary Documents:
Proposal Synopsis: A super brief overview of the six-page
proposal document Making the
Case for Change, was developed.
While reading the document itself is advised, the overview
is available here.
Cover Letters: The cover letters delivering the
proposal requested by 2017 House Memorial 1 to the Legislature
and to the Interstate
Stream Commission explain some of the development background
for Making the
Case for Change, identify the diverse set of
participants involved, and note that selected issues have intentionally
been left unaddressed.
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