Water Resources Program & Water Assembly Sponsor Rio Grande Compact Forum TONIGHT

The UNM Water Resources Program and the Water Assembly are sponsoring the fourth Annual Rio Grande Compact Forum tonight (Thursday, 4/16). This is a free public forum to discuss water delivery on the Rio Grande within the limitations of the Rio Grande Compact. Speakers are:

• Rolf Schmidt-Peterson, Rio Grande Basin Manager, "The Rio Grande Compact, 2008 Accounting and 2009 Updates"
• Dr. Julie Coonrod, Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, "What Climate Change Means to Water Supplies in the Rio Grande and How it Might Impact the Compact"

Location: UNM Continuing Education Building, Room C, 1634 University Blvd.

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Aquifer recharge projects catching on in water-strapped cities

On April 2, the NY Times featured an article focused on our own own Bear Canyon Arroyo Recharge Demonstration Project:

"For about a mile, a steady stream of water flows down Bear Canyon before finally petering out in the sand near a golf course. The arroyo is not supposed to be wet this time of year; the spring snowmelt does not usually occur until later in the season. But under a new demonstration program, local water managers are diverting water from the Rio Grande and sending it down the arroyo, where it seeps through the riverbed into the aquifer 500 feet below."

Click here to read the full article.