0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 33
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                        PATSY TRUJILLO KNAUER
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0009|     
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING AN APPROPRIATE LEGISLATIVE INTERIM COMMITTEE TO
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0012|     CONTINUE TO INCLUDE WATER CONSERVATION IN ITS WORK PLAN.
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0013|     
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0014|          WHEREAS, many aquifers, most notably in the Albuquerque
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0015|     valley, are being depleted at a faster rate than they can be
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0016|     replenished; and
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0017|          WHEREAS, most of the available water in New Mexico's
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0018|     river basins is already committed to present uses; and
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0019|          WHEREAS, the amount and timing of water released in our
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0020|     streams is sometimes inadequate to sustain healthy ecosystems;
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0021|     and
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0022|          WHEREAS, conservation of water, watershed management and
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0023|     other methods should be used to achieve increased water
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0024|     yields;
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0025|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0001|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico legislative council be
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0002|     requested to re-create the integrated water and resource
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0003|     planning committee for at least two additional years; and 
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0004|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT water conservation continue
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0005|     to be included in the committee's work plan to evaluate
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0006|     approaches to water conservation, focusing on voluntary
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0007|     incentives rather than imposed constraints; and
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0008|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the integrated water and
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0009|     resource planning committee assist in developing a broad
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0010|     strategy of water conservation from planning to use; and
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0011|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the integrated water and
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0012|     resource planning committee report its findings and
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0013|     recommendations to the second session of the forty-fourth
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0014|     legislature; and
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0015|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0016|     transmitted to the members of the New Mexico legislative
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0017|     council.
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