The Dialogue’s 15th Annual Statewide Meeting

“Bringing Accountability to Water Planning: Do We Need a Crisis?”

Transcripts of most presentations (starred (*) on the agenda below) are available for download, as either MS Word or PDF files. Credit and thanks are due to Lisa Robert, who prepared and edited the transcripts from audio tapes recorded at the meeting, and to Elaine Hebard, who “threaded” slides with the text files, to create “seamless” documents. To read or download the presentations, click on the underlined panel title.

when	Jan 15, 2009  from 02:00 AM to 02:00 AM
where	Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque
attendees	Lee Brown Kevin Flanigan Alan Hamilton Janet Jarratt Regis Pecos Jean Witherspoon Paula Garcia Norm Gaume Jim McCord Dale Dekker David Gutzler Simeon Herskovits
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AGENDA

8:30        Welcome and introductions

8:45         Key Challenges

               Panel 1: The Consequences of Being Overdrawn

                 Economic:*Lee Brown, Ph.D., principal, H2O Economics

                 Interstate Compact Compliance:   *Kevin Flanigan, hydrologist, ISC

                *Alan Hamilton Ph.D., Conservation Director, New Mexico Wildlife Federation

10:15       Panel 2: The Consequences of Being Overdrawn (continued)

Agriculture:  Janet Jarratt, agriculture and water advocate

               Tribal:       *Regis Pecos, former governor; member, Cochiti Pueblo Tribal 
                                Council

               Municipal: *Jean Witherspoon, New Mexico Water Conservation Alliance; 
                                former water conservation manager, Albuquerque Water Utility 
                                Division

1:00         Panel 3:  Making Up the Deficit

               Paula Garcia, executive director, New Mexico Acequia Association

               Norm Gaume, consultant, former Interstate Stream Commission Director

               *Jim McCord, senior hydrogeologist, water resource engineer, 
                 AMEC-Hydrosphere

2:30         Panel 4:  No One Else is Going to Bail Us Out

               *Dale Dekker, AIA, AICP, architect, Dekker, Perich, Sabatini

               *David Gutzler, Ph.D., professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

                Simeon Herskovits, attorney, Advocates for Community and Environment 

3:45         Summation and Nominations for the Dialogue Board of Directors