Past Events
The Water Advocates hosts and supports events related to critical water issues featuring local experts and public participation.
Our featured event is an online monthly speaker workshop featuring local water experts and related guests held the third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m.
Find past workshops listed below, review presentations, and download materials.
February 20, 2025 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Join us for a discussion with Mariel Nanasi and Melissa Troutman regarding the Governor’s “Strategic Water Supply.” The name of the project is extremely misleading. The Governor wants to subsidize private projects to provide industrial water supplies from oilfield produced water or deep brackish groundwater. Treatment will be incredibly expensive; the carbon footprint immense. These […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
Location: Online
Speakers: Mariel Nanasi, Melissa Troutman, and Norm Gaume
January 16, 2025 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Join three professionals who worked as members of the 2022 NM Water Policy and Infrastructure Task Force to learn about the Water Security Agenda for the 2025 Legislature. The plain truth is the Legislature has, for years, neglected to adequately fund implementation of the laws it has passed and the programs it has started to […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
Location: Online
Speakers: Norm Gaume, Ladona Clayton, Phil King
Nov 21, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 PM
Ladona Clayton and Norm Gaume discussed what the 2025 Legislature must accomplish to begin a course correction toward successful adaptation to NM’s more arid future. Learn about your part in helping achieve these goals
Organizer: New Mexico Water Advocates
Location: Online
Speakers: Ladona Clayton and Norm Gaume
October 21, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 PM
This was a presentation from the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources featuring Stacy Timmons, Rachel Hobbs, and Laila Sturgis and addressing project updates from the Aquifer Mapping effort for New Mexico, how these efforts tie to the Water Data Initiative, and the long-term goals to build a modern and complete aquifer characterization […]
Organizer: New Mexico Water Advocates
Location: Online
Speakers: Stacy Timmons, Rachel Hobbs, and Laila Sturgis
September 19, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 PM
This was an important presentation and discussion on the ongoing aridification of New Mexico caused by higher temperatures. David Gutzler and David DuBois presented how and why New Mexico is drying, what we can expect, and the certainty of the science. The science of global warming impacts on New Mexico’s climate will guide us in […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
Speakers: David Gutzler and David DuBois
August 15, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 PM
This was a second discussion with Bruce Thomson on New Mexico’s water resources. Back In May, Bruce discussed unconventional sources of water and their (un)sustainability. This August conversation focused on the conventional sources of water in New Mexico, how we use them, and how we can manage them for long-term sustainability
Organizer: New Mexico Water Advocates
Speakers: Dr. Bruce Thomson, UNM Professor, Ret.., Chair New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission
July 18, 2024 – 6:30 – 8:00 PM
A discussion with Nat Chakeres, OSE General Counsel, and Tanya Trujillo, Deputy State Engineer, discussing how the OSE is managing Rio Grande Compact compliance in the Middle Rio Grande and below Elephant Butte Dam in the Lower Rio Grande. Learn about incentives and motivators that the OSE can use to ensure that New Mexico complies […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
Speakers: Nat Chakeres, OSE General Counsel, and Tanya Trujillo, Deputy State Engineer
June 20, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 PM
A discussion with Hannah Riseley White,NM ISC Director and Phil King, Ph.D., P.E., New Mexico water professor (ret.), NM Water Ambassador, special technical advisor to the OSE/ISC, consulting engineer, and contributing author to “Climate Change in New Mexico Over the Next 50 Years: Impacts on Water Resources” The topic was the implementation of the 2023 […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
Speakers: Hannah Riseley White,NM ISC Director and Phil King, Ph.D., P.E.
May 16, 2024 – 6:30 – 8:00 PM
A discussion on unconventional water sources with Dr. Bruce Thomson, a UNM professor who teaches a wide range of environmental engineering courses. Bruce discussed issues related to the quality of water New Mexico is using and considering for future use and whether any of these unconventional water sources are viable and sustainable.
Organizer: Water Advocates
Speakers: Dr. Bruce Thomson, UNM Professor, Ret.., Chair New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission
March 21, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm
A lively interactive discussion between NM State Senator Carrie Hamblen and NM Water Ambassador Norm Gaume about the water, our sustainable quality of life, and the NM Legislature, broadcast live from Senator Hamblen’s office in Las Cruces. Conservation Voters New Mexico (CVNM) recognized Senator Hamblen (SD-38, Doña Ana) with its 2024 Luminaria Award. Many of […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
Speakers: Senator Carrie Hamblen (District 38, Las Cruces)
February 15, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Our panel in February featured Tricia Snyder from New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Sammi Kao from Conservation Voters New Mexico and Gabby O’Keefe from Lavendr. Tricia and Sammi reported on the water funding and policy actions of the 2024 Legislature. Gabby told us why it’s so important to have creative translation of complex matters of water […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
January 18, 2024 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm
This interactive workshop had a panel of three former members of the 2022 State Engineer’s Water Policy and Infrastructure Task Force, Phil King, Ladona Clayton, and Norm Gaume. The panelists are working together currently as NM Water Ambassadors. The Water Ambassadors joint purpose is to advocate for all the water task force recommendations. The panelists […]
Organizer: Water Advocates
Speakers: Phil King, Ladona Clayton, and Norm Gaume
