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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.
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The Discussion Draft of the Rule and Guidelines proposes the framework for regional water planning, including governance structures, public welfare considerations, and new regional water planning boundaries.
Discussion Draft Rule
Discussion Draft Guidelines
Discussion Draft Hydro-Administrative Boundaries
Discussion Draft Boundary StoryMap
We invite the public to review the Discussion Draft Rule and Guidelines. You are encouraged to leave feedback through a survey linked below, which will be open until February 21, 2025.
Discussion Draft Survey
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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