Previous Conferences
The Water Advocates (previously Water Assembly) holds conferences approximately once each year. It also conducts informational speaker sessions as the need arises. Recordings and supporting data for for these events in the years since acceptance of the Middle Rio Grande Regional Water Plan (2004) are available from the links below.
2023-2024
Special Series: "Think Water - Act Now! Water Advocacy at Work" - monthly, May 16, 2023 through March 21, 2024
Description of the Past Events and Associated Recordings
2023
Think Water - Act Now! Rally Around the Roundhouse - January 26, 2023
Description of the Event and Associated Video
2022
Special Series: New Mexico Water Policy, Funding, and the 2023 Legislature - a three session series
Description and Recordings of the Series
Nineteenth Council: "The Great Change - Surviving New Mexico's Arid Future ... A Call to Action"
Description and Recordings of the Council
2018
Eighteenth Council: "Making the Case for Change – Too Many Promises, Too Little Water … A Call to Action!"
Agenda with links to slides
2016
Seventeenth Assembly: "Managing the River to Failure – Is There a Better Way "
Agenda with links to slides
2015
Sixteenth Assembly: "Climate Disruption and Our Water Future - Mitigate, Adapt or Suffer - A Call for New Strategies"
Agenda with links to slides
2014
Forum: "Our Water Imbalance - Creating Adaptive Strategies Together"
Agenda with links to slides
2011
Fifteenth Annual Assembly: "Choosing our Future"
Assembly presentations, discussion, and initial scenario attributes
2011
Forum: "Aquifer Recharge Storage and Recovery: Boon or Boondoggle"
Agenda with links to the presentations
2010
Fourteenth Annual Assembly: "2025 ... A Water Prophecy?
Wet or Dry? Rich or Poor? Green or Brown? At Peace or War?"
Agenda with links to the slides and audio
2009
Thirteenth Annual Assembly: "Water ... Our Future; How Far Have We Come? What's Next?"
Agenda with links to the slides
2009
Forum: "Desalination: Silver Bullet or Pipe Dream
Agenda with links to the presentations
2008
Twelveth Annual Assembly: "Subprime Water Crisis: to close the gap, what will you give up?"
Agenda with links to the transcripts
Notes from Plenary Session
2007
Eleventh Annual Assembly: "Growth, Ecology & Traditions: Not Enough Water for All"
Agenda with links to the transcripts
Notes from Plenary Session ( kb)
Second Annual Rio Grande Compact Form
Agenda with links to the presentations
Annual Report for 2007 is the Newsletter for 2006 published in May 2007
2007 Newsletter available November 2007
2006
Tenth Annual Assembly: "Adjudication: Curse or Salvation?"
Agenda with links to the transcripts
Notes from Plenary Session (116 kb)
Contact Lynn sunfarm@toast.net for a DVD of the program
First Annual Rio Grande Compact Form
Agenda with links to the presentations
2005
Ninth Annual Assembly: "Straight Talk - Our Water is Over-Allocated"
Agenda with links to the transcripts
2004
Eighth Annual Assembly: "Urgent Shortfall Reality"
Agenda with links to the transcripts
Annual Report
Newsletter
