State Water Planning


State Water Planning Documents Archive

Dialogue – Spring 2019

Summary report on 25th Annual Statewide Meeting

DIALOGUE’S 20th ANNUAL STATEWIDE MEETING – Implementing Change: Where’s the Political Will?

Advancing New Mexico’s Water Future

Report from New Mexico First Town Hall on Water Planning 2017

Taking Charge of our Water Destiny

A Water Management Policy Guide for the 21st Century

Comparative Analysis of State Water Planning Efforts

ARIZONA, COLORADO, MONTANA, OKLAHOMA, OREGON, TEXAS & UTAH, WITH COMMENTARY ON NEW MEXICO WATER PLANNING STATUTES, OBJECTIVES, AND TRIBAL CONSULTATION

Board meeting minutes – July 13, 2017 [corrected]

Regular meeting plus programmatic presentations on state water-planning “charter” and proposed San Agustin Plains groundwater transfer.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STATE WATER PLANNING EFFORTS

IN ARIZONA, COLORADO, MONTANA,OKLAHOMA, OREGON, TEXAS & UTAH WITH COMMENTARY ON NEW MEXICO WATER PLANNING STATUTES, OBJECTIVES, AND TRIBAL CONSULTATION

2018 State Water Plan Charter

ISC document

Dialogue – Spring 2017

Includes Kathy Grassel’s summary report on the 23rd Annual Statewide Meeting, and House Memorial 1 Task Force Water Planning Improvement project

HM 1 (HAWC Substitute for House Memorial 1, 2017 Regular Legis. Session)

REQUESTING THE INTERSTATE STREAM COMMISSION TO CONVENE A TASK FORCE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CORRECT DEFICIENCIES IN STATE AND REGIONAL WATER PLANNING PROGRAMS AND PROCESSES.

A Dialogue with the NM Interstate Stream Commission (part 2)

Questions & Answers for ISC Director Dixon (audio file: .wma).

A Dialogue with the NM Interstate Stream Commission (part 1)

Remarks reflecting on the day’s work by ISC Director Deborah Dixon (audio file: .wma).

Reports from the breakout sessions

Reports from each table (two rounds each) combined in a single document (.docx).

Intro. to the breakout sessions (slides)

Lucy’s instructions about breakout group logistics (slides: .pdf)

Introduction to the breakout sessions

Lucy Moore’s instructions regarding breakout group logistics (audio file: .wma)

Role of New Mexico First in water planning

Heather Balas, NM First President, discusses her organization’s role in the ISC’s water planning process going forward. (Audio file: .wma)

Questions & Answers following panel: components of good state water plans

Audio file: .wma

Panel presentation – comparing state water plans

Adrian Oglesby, Director, Utton Transboundary Resources Center, UNM school of Law (audio file: .wma)

Panel presentation – good state water plans …the Colorado Way

Greg Johnson, Colorado Water Conservation Board (slides: .pdf)

Panel presentation – components of good state water plans

John Leeper, AMEC (slides: .pdf).

Components of Good State Water Plans – Panel presentation

John Leeper, AMEC (audio file: .wma).

Questions & Answers following keynote speakers

23rd ASM – Audio file (.wma)

Slides for J. Faler presentation (keynote 2)

Slides are in .pdf format.

First keynote address – Where we are [and what the future holds]

Presentation by John Fleck, UNM Water Resources program director. Audio file (.wma).

Summary of 2003 state water plan

“content summary” – list 

SWP Example – Drought plan

Excerpt from 2003 NM State Water Plan

23rd Annual Statewide Meeting – Agenda [as of 12/7/16]

Updated agenda

Report of RWP-SWP Ad Hoc Committee 

Appendix C – 2003 State Water Plan. Report on relationships between regional water plans and the state water plan

Panel: Report and Update from the ISC [Dixon: ISC and S/RWP Issues]

Audio file

Ken Peterson, NM WRRI – Report on Statewide Water Budget 

PowerPoint presentation; audio file

Water Rights Adjudication

Draft issue paper. Comments are welcome.

Technical Information

Draft issue paper. Comments are welcome.

Tribal Participation

Draft issue paper. Comments are welcome.

Public Participation

Draft issue paper. Comments are welcome.

Strengthening Linkages

Draft Issue paper. Comments welcome.

Introduction and Summary

Introduces the purpose of the Governance Study Group (GSG), its approach, and its draft work products, a series of six issue papers.

State and Regional Water Planning in New Mexico

Reprinted from Water Matters 7, a publication of the Utton Transboundary Resource Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law.

ISC State and Regional Water Planning Work Plan FY ’15 – ’16

As approved by the ISC June 5, 2014. 

New Mexico First Town Hall on Water Planning, Development & Use 2014

Final Report from the Town Hall Released

Earlier this month, New Mexico First released the final report of recommendations from the Town Hall on Water Planning, Development & Use, held April 15-16, 2014 in Albuquerque. The recommendations fell into five major themes. The list below offers a high-level summary. Additional details, including concrete strategies for advancing each theme, are provided in the complete report.

You may also download the Background Report provided to Town Hall participants. 

State and Regional Water Planning Work Plan 2014 [SUPERSEDED]

The ISC’s approved work plan for updating the 2003 State Water Plan and funding selected regions to update their RWPs 

David Gutzler presentation 

16th Annual Statewide Meeting 2010 – Competing interests in the face of future changes