Reference Material
Further Reading
Executive Summary of the Estancia Basin Regional Water Plan, prepared
by Corbin Consulting, Inc. Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Estancia Basin Water
Planning Committee. This important document describes the community consensus
on what should be done with our water.
download (pdf
660k)
The Estancia Basin Regional Water Plan, Thanks to the Estancia Basin
Water Planning Committee we now have the text of the complete water plan available
on the site. It is currently available as a PDF in three parts:
Part 1 (pdf 2.4M)
Part 2 (pdf 8.3M)
Part 3 (pdf 7.7M)
Dispatches from the Water Wars, The
Santa Fe Review, A Journal of Commentary and Reportage An online
journal with some great articles outlining some of the environmental and
urban development forces which are driving Santa Fe's quest for more water.
Desalination of Inland
Brackish Water: Issues and Concerns Hightower, Mike, Tularosa Basin
National Desalination Research Facility Web site
Bureau of Reclamation Report to Congress: Tularosa Basin National Desalination
Research Facility Study Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National
Laboratories. September, 2002. download (pdf)
New Mexico Brackish Groundwater Assessment Program Workshop: Report of
Findings and Recommendations. Land, Lewis, and Peggy Johnson. Albuquerque,
NM: Workshop sponsored by the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer, New
Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, and United States Bureau of Reclamation,
2004. download (pdf)
The Consequences of Water Export
Professor Emeritus of Economics Charles Howe of the University of Colorado
has graciously allowed us to reprint a copy of his recent paper "Water
Transfers and Their Impacts: Lessons from Three Colorado Water Markets".
You can view Highlights or download the complete
paper.
Mechanisms for Addressing Third Party Impacts Resulting from Voluntary
Water Transfers This paper examines possible methods to protect third
party interests in water transfers with taxes on the transfers being the
most promising. This is similar to the conclusion adopted by Professor Howe
in the above paper. abstract
and download page (pdf 384k)
Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West, Bureau of
Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior, download (pdf)
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc
Reisner
The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very
illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere.
Highly recommended! (Amazon.com editorial) buy
it at amazon.com
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, & the Growth of the American West Worster,
Donald. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. buy
it at amazon.com
