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