Publications
Publication Date
3-15-2010
Document Type
Report
Abstract
This report is a synthesis of the presentations and discussions featured at the Utton Transboundary Re-sources Center’s March 15, 2010 Environmental Flows Workshop at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Over 100 stakeholders, lawyers, scientists, and decision-makers gathered to develop a better understanding of how environmental flows are successfully implemented across the West and in New Mexico. They also began the process of evaluating the condition of New Mexico’s rivers and identifying opportunities to conserve and enhance their natural functions.
The goal of the Workshop was to inform a wide range of policy-makers, agency managers and stakeholders of current directions in environmental flow management in the Southwest. The purpose was to address eco-logical and structural impacts to New Mexico’s rivers caused by changes in flows. The Workshop gave an overview of on-going flow programs in New Mexico and explored the state of the science and existing data. The Workshop explored the issues involved in trying to balance consumptive and environmental uses of water from various perspectives.
At the Workshop, the plainspoken presentations and exchanges brought new understandings that crossed both cultural and political boundaries. Building upon the existing foundation of support for developing com-prehensive environmental flow policy and science in New Mexico, this Workshop began the process of empowering New Mexico to better protect and manage its water and rivers with environmental flows.
Language
English
Publisher
The Utton Transboundary Resources Center
Recommended Citation
Utton Transboundary Resources Center, UNM and Adrian Oglesby. "New Mexico Environmental Flows Workshop Report and Synthesis, From the Environmental Flows Workshop at the University of New Mexico School of Law March 15, 2010." (2010). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/utton_pubs/86
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