Regional Water Plans
Regional Water Plans accepted by the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission are published on the OSE/ISC Website. Some regional water planing organizations have their own sites, and will be listed as we learn about them. The link address is: http://www.ose.state.nm.us/isc_regional_planning.html
Middle Rio Grande Water Advocates
The Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly is a grass roots all-volunteer organization that focuses on water-related issues for Valencia, Sandoval and Bernalillo Counties in New Mexico. The link address is: http://www.waterassembly.org/
Archive of Regional Water Planning Documents
Archived: Application Information Package
This memo regards information relating to the 2014 Water Trust Board Application Cycle. This information corresponds with the 2014 Sequence of Events, the Water Trust Board Application Checklist and the Application Process.
Taking Charge of our Water Destiny
A Water Management Policy Guide for the 21st Century
Regional Water Planning Boundaries
ISC Discussion White Paper, with link to a stakeholder survey
Regional Water Plan(s): Projects, Programs and Policies Lists
NMISC Discussion White Paper, with link to a stakeholdler survey
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.
First keynote address – Where we are [and what the future holds]
Presentation by John Fleck, UNM Water Resources program director. Audio file (.wma).
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
ASM22 Full Report
Full version (37 pages) of the report on the Dialogue’s 2016 Annual Statewide Meeting
Panel: Report and Update from the ISC [Dixon: ISC and S/RWP Issues]
Audio file
Panel: Report and Update from the ISC [Russel: Linking Funding to Water Planning]
Audio file
Panel: Report and Update from the ISC [Morrison (OSE) Common Technical Platform]
Audio file
Panel: Report and Update from the ISC [Bordegaray: Current Status of RWP]
Audio file
Sharon Hausam – Panel: RWP Emerging Issues [Public Participation]
PowerPoint presentation; audio file
Sharon Hausam – Panel: RWP Emerging Issues
Audio file
John Brown – Panel: RWP – Emerging Issues [Governance and Institutional Arrangements]
PowerPoint presentation; audio file
Brown, J. – Panel: RWP Emerging Issues
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.
Governance and Institutional Arrangements
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.
Governance: The Missing Piece Required for Successful Water Planning in New Mexico
Unpublished manuscript
Sevilleta Workshop July 28, 2015 summary report
Reports from the Regions and Dialogue with ISC staff
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.
NEW MEXICO SHOULD GOVERN ITS WATER RESOURCE MORE LIKE A COMMONS AND LESS LIKE A MARKET COMMODITY
Conventional wisdom asserts that what is needed to ensure that water is allocated to its highest and best uses is for governments to “get out of the way” and allow markets to function efficiently. That approach doesn’t seem to be working well for New Mexico’s future, for reasons discussed below. How we govern our water becomes particularly critical in the context of looming disruptive impacts of climate change on our sources of supply. This essay proposes an alternative: to think of our water resource as a commons, and govern it accordingly.
Panel 1 Q&A audio
.WMA file of the Q&A discussion
Reports from the Regions – Region 10
Slide presentation: “Precipitation Pecos Watershed 2013-2014”
Reports from the Regions – Region 8
Slide presentation: Mora-San Miguel-Guadalupe Counties Water Planning Region 8
WTB Non-pipe criteria
Watershed Restoration and Management Projects and Endangered Species Act Projects are scored and prioritized using “Non-Pipe” criteria (attached.)
WTB Pipe Project Criteria
Water Storage, Conveyance & Delivery Projects, Water Conservation or Recycling, Treatment or Reuse Projects and Flood Prevention Projects are scored and prioritized using “Pipe” criteria (attached).
WTB Project Management Policies
The Water Trust Board is considering potential changes to its comprehensive Project Management Policies. In particular, Sections 2.5 Funding Match Obligation (page 7 of the attached Policies) and Section 3.8 Water System Technical Governance (page 13 of the attached Policies).
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.
Recommended Approach for New Mexico State and Regional Water Plan Updates 2013-2015
ISC document outlining “common technical platform” as basis for ensuring consistency among RWPs. Stresses importance of consistency in developing SWP to be able to prioritize projects for funding through the Water Trust Board.
Regional Water Planning Stakeholders – Call for Participation and Local Input
ISC handout at initial meetings with Regions – Steering committee membership guidance; technical research and data gathering process for developing reports to regions for developing RWP “updates.”
Dialogue – Spring 2014
Summary Report on 20th Annual Statewide Meeting “Implementing Change: Where’s the Political Will?” Tribute to Frank Titus; Update from the President; What we know—and don’t know—about the ISC’s Regional Water Planning “Update” process; Water Resource Planning and Reality; Key Court Victory In the Fight to Protect the Great Basin from the Unsustainable Export of Groundwater…; Statewide water town hall produces wide-ranging platform of policy reform
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
Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning (California)
Provides a framework for considering climate change in water management planning. Key decision considerations, resources, tools, and decision options are presented that will guide resource managers and planners as they develop means of adapting their programs to a changing climate.
Simeon Herskovits presentation
17th Annual Statewide Meeting 2011 – Taos County Public Welfare Ordinance