DROUGHT PREPAREDNESS
COMMUNITY WATER & WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
Hatch and Mesilla Valley Drought Resiliency Project
Elephant Butte Irrigation District (EBID) was selected for award for the Reclamation WaterSMART Drought Response Program. The project entitled, EBID Drought Resiliency Priority Projects: Watershed-scale Stormwater Monitoring and Capture proposes to address program tasks of a) increasing the reliability of water supplies through infrastructure improvements, through stormwater capture and aquifer recharge and b) projects to improve water management through decision support tools, modeling, and measurement, through increased system monitoring and a model decision support tool. NM WRRI will lead the development of an integrated system dynamics model decision-support tool, which will assess the systems’ water balance and related socio-economic data that allows for long-term future trend projection of the effect of stormwater supplies and a scenario of watershed-scale stormwater harvesting.
Towards Resilient Food-Energy-Water Systems in Response to Drought Impacts
New Mexico (INFEWS). The research will improve understanding of and advance the knowledge of interconnected Food-Energy-Water (FEW) systems in NM. The research is intellectually driven by the need for integrating FEW systems with the resilience approach.