Publications

New Mexico Water Dialogue

Publications

The latest issue of Dialogue (Fall 2007) has been published. To subscribe to the printed version or receive a free trial issue, email the acting executive director, Conci Bokum. You can read and download all of the back issues listed on this page. They are in PDF format, and this may take a while with a dial-up connection.

Contents of the Fall 2007 issue:

Water Planners Look Ahead to "Next Iteration" (2007 Annual Meeting) - Lisa Robert

Updates from.... - Conci Bokum, President

Reports from the Regions:

Water for Navajos, at Last - Michael Benson

Gila River Update - Dutch Salmon

Northeast NM Regional Water Plan - Kendyl Monroe

Project Reports

Water Conservation Incentives Project

Upstream-Downstream Project

14th Annual Statewide Meeting

Draft Agenda

Early Registration Form

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Contents of December 2006 issue:

Markets and Communinty (Dedicated to the Memory of Chris Nunn Garcia)

"The Upstream-Downstream Project: Prospects for Trust and Cooperation among Regions Sharing a Common Source of Water"

"Marketing Water in New Mexico - Whose Business?" by John Brown

"Remembering Chris" by Lucy Moore, Lisa Robert, and Conci Bokum

"Save Water for What? Considering Public Welfare in Designing Conservation Incentives" (report from the Water Conservation Incentives Project Steering Committee)

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Winter 2005-06: Making Connections

"Can settlement negotiations make adjudication a community-based process?" (Commentary on Beth Richards' article) by Chris Garcia

"Growth and Competition for Land and Water" by Lisa Robert*

Note: To download the image referred to in Lisa's article click on the link below. Warning: this Landsat photo of the Middle Rio Grande makes an extremely large JPG file (6.27 mb). It will take a long time to load, and has been known to cause some computers to crash! Click here to download riogrande.jpg

"A Conversation about the Future of Water Leasing in New Mexico" by Molly McIntosh

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Summer 2005 - Water Rights Settlement Agreements in New Mexico by Beth Richards

2005 Annual Statewide Meeting; Spring Fundraising Campaign

Report on work plan progress

Thanks to our contributors

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July 2004 - Water Transfers

Comment: Why Discuss Water Transfers?

New Board Members

"Moving Water" panels from January 2004 Statewide Meeting

"Active Water Management and Water Markets" by Chris Garcia

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January 2004 - State Water Plan: The Product

Synopsis of the "final draft"; review by the Dialogue Board; four assessments - by Conci Bokum, John Carangelo, Janet Jarratt, Tracy Hephner

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Summer 2003 - State Water Plan: The Process

Legislation providing for a comprehensive state water plan; Dialogue letter to the ISC Director; report on 2003 water legislation; schedules of ISC public meetings.

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Winter 2003 - Reports on the January 2003 Statewide Meeting

Demographics; drought; "Transitions" and the road ahead

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