New Mexico’s Water Future: Connecting Stakeholder Needs to Water  Information

La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe

November 18-19, 2014

2014 Conference Proceedings  (as one file)

Contents

Cover

Title Page and Conference Photos

Table of Contents

Conference Advisory Committee

Speaker Bios

Conference Program

New Mexico’s Statewide Water Assessment: Data Collection and Delivery to Meet Stakeholder Needs Sam Fernald, NM Water Resources Research Institute

Water Update by the New Mexico State Engineer
Scott Verhines, New Mexico State Engineer

Stakeholder Panel: Large-scale Water Users

Statewide Water Assessment Researcher Panel

How Agencies in NM Will Contribute to the Statewide Water Assessment

2014 Albert E. Utton Memorial Water Lecture
A Hydrogeologic Perspective on Groundwater Conservation in the Northern Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico, Texas, and Chihuahua John W. Hawley, Emeritus Senior Environmental Geologist

Community Stakeholder Panel: Inputs to New Mexico’s Water System and Stakeholder Needs from a Statewide Water Assessment

Regional Water Budget Model: The Middle Rio Grande
Bruce Thomson, University of New Mexico

Ground Water Level and Storage Changes – Regions of New Mexico
Stacy Timmons, NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, NM Tech

Water for Ranching, Agriculture, and Communities in New Mexico’s Tribes and Pueblos Arthur Allison, New Mexico Secretary of Indian Affairs

The Role of Water in New Mexico’s Economic Development
Jon Barela, New Mexico Secretary for Economic Development

Groundwater Depletion Across the U.S. and How We Measure It
William Cunningham, Chief, U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Groundwater

Legislative and Policy Perspective
Senator Mary Kay Papen, NM Senate President Pro Tem

Water: What Can Our Future Hold?
Heather W. Balas, New Mexico First

Identification of Law and Policy Options for Best Water Management Practice Adrian Oglesby, UNM Utton Transboundary Resources Center

Brackish and Saline Groundwater in New Mexico–?
John Shomaker, Shomaker and Associates, Inc.

Characterization of Produced Water in New Mexico: the NM WAIDS Database
Martha Cather, Petroleum Recovery Research Center, NM Tech

New Mexico Universities Working Group on Climate Variability

Poster Abstracts

Participant List