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Proposed Roadmap

Proposed Roadmap. A Draft to Discuss as an Emerging Model Agreement for Collaborative Planning and Operation of Transboundary Watersheds CAVEAT: This Roadmap proposal is for discussion purposes only. It has not been reviewed nor approved by any agency, Mexican or US.

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Proposed Roadmap

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  1. Proposed Roadmap A Draft to Discuss as an Emerging Model Agreement for Collaborative Planning and Operation of Transboundary Watersheds CAVEAT: This Roadmap proposal is for discussion purposes only. It has not been reviewed nor approved by any agency, Mexican or US.

  2. " Withdrawals from one country can drain life-giving water from a neighboring country and, as a consequence, be the source of severe and protracted conflict.“ Robert D. Hayton & Albert E. Utton, Transboundary Groundwaters: The Bellagio Draft Treaty 663 (1992)

  3. U.S.-Mexico Border Map Highlighting Water Supplies • Good Neighbor Environmental Board Eighth Report • www.epa.gov/ocem/gneb

  4. Mimbres Summarized Concerns •  population •  water demands • mutually dependent on groundwater • current uses exceed recharge

  5. Mimbres Activities to Date • Formed Steering Committee • Identified issues • Prioritized activities • Assembled existing information into background report • Developed Strategies and Actions within the Rural Task Force Strategic Plan • Created a baseline map

  6. Mimbres Issues & Barriers Issues include: • What is the water supply? • How much water is being used? • How much water will be needed to meet future demands? • How does climate change affect the supply? • What is the quality of the water? Barriers include: • international boundary • lack of data • incompatible information

  7. Roadmap • Local Level • University Connection • Water Management Agencies • International

  8. Local Level Investigate binational educational opportunities Ideas include water education, conservation, festivals, poster contests Create a Steering Committee * broad range of interests and entities • develop a background report with available data and identify gaps; • measure and monitor to determine what changes, if any, are occurring to the baseline; and • develop a list of “trigger events”

  9. University Connection Develop a convenio to: • formalize the collection and sharing of data and creation of the maps; • exchange teachers and students to strengthen project; • work with the water resource management agencies to integrate their work; and • work with the local communities and schools to support their activities.

  10. University Example WRRI/NMSU and CIG/UACJ have been collecting and sharing data in order to develop a binational map. Hosted at mirror sites: • river.nmsu.edu/website/mimbres, and • cig.uacj.mx/modules/Proyectos/ mimbres/MIMBRES.htm

  11. Water Management Agencies Needed is an agreement to: • assist and support the Steering Committee and the Schools; • review the data collected by the Universities, assist in filling in gaps, and update current reports so as to incorporate new data and concepts; and • consider what steps might be taken in the instance of a trigger event happening.

  12. Water Agencies Example Memorandum of Understanding between Junta Municipal de Agua y Saneamiento de Juárez, Chihuahua (JMAS) and the El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board (PSB), of the City of El Paso, Texas “The JMAS and the PSB are cooperating in the mathematical modeling of the Hueco Bolson, in conjunction with the United States Geological Survey, Mexico's National Commission for Water, and the International Boundary and Water Commission. The JMAS and the PSB are sharing information related to well locations and pumpage data. “

  13. International Level = IBWC/CILA Enforcement for managing transboundary groundwater –-for quality and quantity concerns-- would seem a perfect fit for the IBWC/CILA. Needed is a protocol for such issues to be presented and then a Minute to handle such issues.

  14. Other International Examples • UNESCO-ISARM (Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management) • United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997) • Draft articles on the law of transboundary aquifers by the International Law Commission on Shared Natural Resources (groundwaters) (2005)

  15. Additional Recommendations • Develop binational data protocols and apply them. • Develop a memorandum of understanding on working toward transfer of data that is compatible in form, with a quality assurance project plan (QAPP) between the two nations being the ultimate goal. • Promote binational sharing of information about transboundary aquifers. Good Neighbor Environmental Board Water Resources Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Eighth Report to the President and the Congress of the United States, February 2005)

  16. Nuestro futuro es juntos * We are neighbors, family & friends * Somos vecinos, familias y amigos * Our future is together * Contact Information Border 2012 NM-Chih Rural Task Force Celso Jaquez, Mexican Co-Leader (636) 101-6207 cesdejanos@yahoo.com Allyson Siwik, U.S. Co-Leader (505) 388-4350 asiwik@zianet.com Elaine Hebard, Project Facilitator Mimbres Basin Dialogue (505) 247-8767 ehebard@yahoo.com

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