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Main Stream New Mexico is your guide to revitalized regional water planning under New Mexico’s Water Security Planning Act of 2023. It is a campaign of the Interstate Stream Commission Water Planning Program.
New Mexico’s Regional Water Planning Mapping Tool
This tool provides an introduction to water data which incorporates various tried-and-true data sets. It pairs population data from the Census with water data from the New Mexico Water Data Act, and overlays those with Water Use by Categories reports from both 2015 and 2020 (among other data sets).
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Understanding Water Regions
As part of the Water Security Planning Act, New Mexico is evaluating the boundaries and number of water planning regions.
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This would reflect the physical characteristics of our landscapes, including watersheds and groundwater basins.
Potential benefits:
such regions may be able to plan more suitably to the characteristics of a shared water supply.
This would organize regions around communities with similar values, norms, cultural practices and water traditions.
Potential benefits:
such regions may plan more suitably to the shared values and norms of their communities.
This would base regions on governance (organized by city, county, tribal government, irrigation district, etc).
Potential benefits:
such regions have existing administrative capacities to develop, fund, and implement plans and projects.
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It is, and that's why we have engaged all of New Mexico.
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