The New Mexico Water Dialogue • the Next Generation Water Summit

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Planning for a Secure Water Future

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May 2017 Northern New Mexico’s Largest Distribution Newspaper Vol. 9 No. 5 NEXT GENERATION WATER SUMMIT June 4th - 6th Santa Fe, NM Sunday, June 4 Green Chamber of Commerce Green Expo & Green Home Show Who Should Attend: Mayor’s Reception Policy Makers • Water Planners • Water Conservation Professionals • Landscape Designers • Architects Land Use Planners • Builders/Developers Monday, June 5 Keynote Speaker: Ed Mazria HOSTS: Educational Sessions Film Screening: Beyond the Mirage

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4 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com Vol. 9, No. 5 • May 2017 Issue No. 97 PUBLISHER Green Fire Publishing, LLC Skip Whitson ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Barbara E. Brown News & Views from the Sustainable Southwest EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Seth Roffman Winner of the Sustainable Santa Fe Award for Outstanding Educational Project DESIGN Green Fire Production Department COPY EDITOR Stephen Klinger CONTENTS WEBMASTER Karen Shepherd “Planning for a Secure Water Future Means Everyone Is at the Table” CONTRIBUTING WRITERS he ew exico ater ialogue s rd nnual onference ucy oore Phil Bové, Mike Collignon, Rachel Conn, T N M W D ’ 23 A C – L M . .. .. 8 Kristina G. Fisher, Jack Loeffler, Lucy Moore, Katherine Mortimer, Doug Pushard, Seth Roffman New Mexico Water Newsbites...... 10, 20, 27 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Phil Bové, Keely Jackson-Kennemore, Jack Loeffler, Seth Roffman, Melissa Williams Next Generation Water Summit — Seth Roffman ...... 13

PUBLISHER’S ASSISTANT n ntroduction to the ater fficiency ating core ike ollignon Cisco Whitson-Brown, Gay Rathman A I W E R S (WERS®) — M C . 15

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Green Fire Times provides useful information for community members, business people, students and visitors—anyone interested in discovering the wealth of opportunities and resources in the Southwest. In support of a more sustainable planet, topics covered range from green businesses, jobs, products, services, entrepreneurship, investing, design, building and energy—to native perspectives on history, arts & culture, ecotourism, education, sustainable agriculture, regional cuisine, water issues and the healing arts. To our publisher, a more sustainable planet also means maximizing environmental as well as personal health by minimizing consumption of meat and alcohol. ON THE COVER: The Río Grande, as seen Green Fire Times is widely distributed throughout north- looking down from the Río central New Mexico as well as to a growing number of Grande Gorge Bridge in New Mexico cities, towns, pueblos and villages. Feedback, Taos, New Mexico announcements, event listings, advertising and article submissions to be considered for publication are welcome. Photo © Seth Roffman www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • May 2017 5 Celebrating Alternative Medicine, Healthy Lifestyles & Sustainable Living Come soak in the healing. TruTh or ConsequenCes, nM May 12-14, 2017 hoTspringsFesTival.CoM Like a 1960s flashback, 2017 has already seen a massive march on Washington, widespread civil demonstrations, vocal Live Music • Workshops • Yoga • Excursions government opposition, civic protests and a deeply divided Hot Springs • Vendors • Camping population. In a timely collaboration, Santa Fe celebrates a half-century since the fabled Summer of Love, another pivotal Paid for by Truth or Consequences Lodgers Tax.

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www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • May 2017 7 “PLANNING for a SECURE WATER FUTURE MEANS EVERYONE IS at the TABLE” The New Mexico Water Dialogue’s 23rd Annual Conference Lucy Moore

ew Mexico has been officially “water planning” for the past 30 years, ever since legislators in NEl Paso tried to reach across the border and help themselves to New Mexico groundwater. The battle was decided in court, and the judge said that New Mexico could deny El Paso’s permit to take our water only if we could prove that we needed every drop for ourselves. This inspired the state to establish a process for a state water plan that would shut the door on thirsty neighbors. A forum for © Seth Roffman professionals and those The annual New Mexico Water Dialogue includes a diversity of voices from around the state reflecting regions with different with generations of climates, cultures and economies. to come together, learn from each other breakout groups, followed by remarks and included in the planning process. local knowledge to and support their mutual efforts to observations from the Interstate Stream The state water plan can be a forum plan for their water futures. Based on Commission (ISC) staff and Director for building trust and respect among learn from each other inclusion, equality and respect, the initial Deborah Dixon. competing water uses. This requires 25-member board of directors for the open communication that is accessible and support their Dialogue included the full diversity of Each board member chose a topic of and inviting to all. mutual efforts the state—geographically, culturally and particular interest to him or her and • Quality of Life: In New Mexico economically. There were professionals facilitated that breakout session. Here is our quality of life depends on our The state water plan would be made up and those with generations of local a sample of the 12 topics: relationship to water. Economic of 16 regional water plans, which would knowledge. There were big irrigation • How can the state water plan be development and water are necessarily include the region’s current and future need districts and small acequia communities. relevant to tribes? bound together. The challenge is to for water and its current and future supplies There were environmental activists, tribal • What kinds of outreach and maintain a good quality of life while of water. The assumption was that when the members, business and industry people, education programs are available to we both conserve and consume our regions were put together the total water ranchers and even a few elected officials. engage people, including youth, in natural resources. Water planning must needs would equal, or as it turned out in The Dialogue still lives today, with a board water issues? honor and protect our communities’ many regions, exceed the total water supply. just as diverse and lively, and continues • How can we balance water protection cultural, religious and social values. Regional water plans were also to include to serve as a grassroots advisory group and economic development? • Data Management: There are many a “public welfare statement” describing the to the New Mexico Interstate Stream • What role can the state water plan play public and private water use and region’s values and priorities for water. Commission (ISC), the body responsible in resolving inter-basin transfer issues? management entities in New Mexico, for water planning. • Should the state water plan address each gathering data, making policy, State law dictated that each region environmental and cultural issues and, developing projects. It is critical that would form a Regional Water Plan Each January the Water Dialogue if so, how? water planning at the state and local Steering Committee that would guide holds a water conference at the Indian • How can we make the new state water level be a collaborative effort, where development of the water plan. Some Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, plan as useful and credible as possible? information and priorities are shared. big regions (Middle Río Grande) had chosen for its fine facility and its much- The state water plan should provide water planners, hydrologists, economists anticipated lunch. Around 125 people The conversations were lively and wide- comprehensive, reliable technical and demographers close at hand to help. attend, and the diversity mirrors the board. ranging, reflecting the Dialogue ethic that data for decision-makers at local and Small regions (Mora-San Miguel) had There are panels and plenty of back-and- we are all experts when it comes to water state levels. lots of on the ground expertise in farmers, forth in the audience. This year’s theme planning, that we all have experience and • Public Engagement: Why aren’t ranchers, acequia members, community was Toward a More Relevant State Water passion to bring to the table. But running more New Mexicans concerned water system managers, etc. Plan, to complement the state’s current through the discussions some common about their water future? There may revision of the state water plan. To tackle themes emerged: be multiple reasons. The topic may Big or small, the task was daunting. In the question the Dialogue tried a different • Building relationships: To plan for be too complicated, too scary, too the early 1990s the New Mexico Water format. In addition to a morning keynote a balanced, equitable water future, boring. It may feel abstract rather Dialogue emerged as a forum for water and a panel of water experts, professional all users—tribal, environmental, than personal. For young people it planners and would-be water planners and lay, the afternoon was devoted to 12 urban, agricultural, etc.—must be may not seem relevant or “cool.” The

8 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com use of social media, water fairs, school dissemination, communication, field trips, internships and mentoring outreach, education, conflict opportunities with water groups and resolution and relationship building. agencies may reach new audiences. The Legislature needs to take water • Conflict Resolution: There are planning seriously and commit inevitably conflicts among regions. sufficient funds on an annual basis. An upstream region identifies water supplies to fulfill its needs that the At the end of the day, Deborah Dixon downstream region is counting on. and her ISC staff reflected on what Don Diego Gonzalez (center) facilitated a breakout session about groundwater data. Water-rights transfers from one they had heard and its relevance to the basin to another set communities state water plan update underway. The against each other, and regions relationship between the Dialogue and against the state. For reliable state the ISC allows for mutual exploration and regional water plans there needs of ways that both the regional and to be a mechanism for resolving these state water plans can reflect the diverse conflicts. Not all parties will be happy, interests of New Mexico. but the process needs to be fair and accepted. For more information, including • Ongoing planning processes: Water summaries of each of the breakout groups, planning should be an ongoing see: allaboutwatersheds.org/new-mexico- process, not the start-stop pattern of water-dialogue  recent years. Regional water planners need to set priorities, evaluate projects, Lucy Moore, seek funding continually in order to mediator, facilitator

implement their water plans. and author, is © Seth Roffman (2) • Funding: Addressing all the issues co-founder of the A breakout session on Making the State Water Plan More Useful and Credible. Center: identified above requires funding— New Mexico Water Sam Fernald of the New Mexico Water Resources Institute. Next to him is Heather water planning, data gathering and Dialogue. Balas of New Mexico First.

www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • May 2017 9 MIXED MESSAGES ON NEW MEXICO’S WATER SUPPLIES the project could produce and who would use it; provide an engineering estimate U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials say that because of above-average mountain of the project’s cost and a plan to pay for it) would cause New Mexico to miss the snowpack along the Colorado-New Mexico border, this summer farmers and cities federal deadline for the project. along New Mexico’s Río Grande river system, including the Río Chama, can expect a full allotment of water. They cautioned that their forecast, which was also based on POJOAQUE BASIN WATER SYSTEM soil moisture and climate predictions, is a guess and that things can change. GRADUALLY MOVES FORWARD Litigation in the Aamodt case, ini- The Sangre de Cristos near Santa Fe, the Pecos River Basin and other mountains tiated 51 years ago to delineate wa- farther south have had below-average snowpack due to a hot, dry March and “flash ter rights between the Pueblos and drought.” Months of high temperatures with little rain have left the eastern plains residents living within the Pojoa- and parts of southern New Mexico quite dry. Still recuperating from an unprecedent- que-Nambe-Tesuque stream system ed 36 months of drought that peaked in 2013, almost half of the state remains abnor- north of Santa Fe, could continue mally dry, although that’s a major improvement over conditions last year. for at least several years.

After looking at future demand and variability in rainfall, along with existing rights, Two settlement agreements have traditional uses, population estimates, economic trends and community development, been signed since 2010, and a final water managers are projecting significant regional shortages of drinking water and ir- court decree will be issued on Sept. rigation supplies in New Mexico over the next five years, except in the San Juan Basin 15. That decree could be subject to in the northwest. They say that in drought years in the Middle Río Grande Valley—the an appeal. The settlement could be state’s most populated area, where agriculture uses about two-thirds of the water— the undone if a $253-million region- river and groundwater pumping will only be able to meet half of the demand. al water system, scheduled to be- STATE WATER PLAN gin construction in 2018, does not meet its requirement of being sub- The New Mexico Water stantially completed by 2024. The Resources Institute at New Bureau of Reclamation’s final En- Mexico State University vironmental Impact Statement for is coordinating different the water system is expected in June, components of a Statewide followed by a record of decision de- Water Assessment. State tailing how the water system will be

and federal agencies and built. Taos County has protested the © Seth Roffman educational institutions planned transfer of 1,752 acre-feet The Río Grande near Los Alamos are providing data in areas of groundwater from the Top of the such as evapotranspiration, World Farm in Taos County, so that an equal amount can be diverted from the crop consumptive use, Río Grande. The State Engineer’s decision on whether to approve the transfer groundwater recharge and is expected this summer. stream flow. The Bureau of Reclamation, the water system’s major funder (along with the state Water managers in 16 wa- and Santa Fe County), has awarded a four-year, $91.9-million design and construc- ter-planning districts in New tion contract to the firm CDM Smith. The New Mexico State Legislature has yet to Mexico have created region- set aside money to go toward construction. al plans that identify gaps in water supplies, as well as pos- The water system would serve about 9,200 customers. It is intended to reduce reli- sible solutions. The Interstate The ISC’s map of NM Water Planning ance on groundwater so that the aquifer does not become depleted. It would employ Stream Commission recently Regions with Native Nation Lands, up to 193 miles of underground pipeline, large storage tanks, chlorination buildings adopted the final two plans. Pueblos and Interstate Compact and power lines at various locations, such as the former Tesuque Flea Market site The Office of the State Engineer and the Boundaries next to the Santa Fe Opera. ISC are expected to issue a comprehensive statewide plan in about a year, updat- WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING ing New Mexico’s first water plan from 2003. The USDA’s Water and Environmental (WEP) program has been vital to the sustain- SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS ability of rural communities. Since 2012, the agency has provided $81.6 million in grants and loans for dozens of small water and wastewater projects in 17 New Mexico GIVES NEW MEXICO ISC NATIONAL ‘AWARD’ counties. Rural community water systems such as the Entranosa Water Cooperative, The Society of Professional Journalists has given its annual award for “most secre- which covers 280 square miles in Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties, serving about 8,500 tive government agency or elected official” to the New Mexico Interstate Stream people, may soon lose this federal support because of the Trump administration’s pro- Commission. The award is intended to highlight the importance of journalists’ ac- posed elimination of the program. The Entranosa cooperative obtained low-interest cess to (what is supposed to be) public information. USDA loans from 2003 to 2010 to buy about 1,600 acre-feet, giving it control of wells it needs to serve clients with clean drinking water and plan for growth. The ISC has seemingly increased its secrecy since the proposal of the $500-million Gila River diversion project. The ISC and the quasi-governmental agency it cre- The president has suggested that rural communities use private financing or— ated, the New Mexico Central Arizona Project Entity, have been the leading pro- despite proposing to drastically cut the EPA’s budget—the EPA State Revolving ponents and facilitators of the project. More than $10 million of $100 million in Fund, managed in New Mexico by the state’s Environment Department. That federal subsidies has already been spent. fund usually goes to larger water systems, and it requires a shorter payback time than the USDA’s program. The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, as well as the commission’s former director, Norman Gaume, have accused the ISC of presenting faulty data Congressman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., has reintroduced the Water Affordabil- to the public. The ISC has allegedly refused to explain the source of water use data, ity, Transparency, Equity and Reliability (WATER) Act. The legislation would insisting that its numbers are accurate without any supporting evidence. provide nearly $35 billion annually to modernize U.S. water infrastructure. It would increase funding for small-scale technical assistance and provide grants to A bipartisan bill in the state Legislature to make the agency more accountable in its communities such as Entranosa. spending on the diversion was opposed by the ISC and the CAP Entity. The bill died in the Senate Finance Committee. In its testimony, the ISC asserted that the time The American Society of Civil Engineers 2017 report on America’s Infrastructure it would take for the agency to produce answers to the questions in the bill (demon- states that New Mexico needs approximately $1.1 billion in water improvements strate that the proposed project is technically feasible; quantify the amount of water over the next 20 years.

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Water is the true limit to growth in the Southwest. Buildings must become radically more water efficient. New tools and regulatory models have been developed, allowing us to do this now. – Kim Shanahan, executive officer, SFAHBA

Making our communities sustainable in the long term given predicted drops in renewable surface water flows, and resilient to short -term and long-term impacts from the effects of climate change, are critical issues across the southwestern United States, as well as many other regions around the world. — Santa Fe City Councilor Peter Ives

he Santa Fe Home Builders Association, the Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce, the CityT of Santa Fe and the national Green Builder Coalition are presenting the first ever Next Generation Water Summit, at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center from June 4–6. This professional summit includes a free Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce Business Expo on the first day. This national Kim Shanahan; Jonah Schein from the Registration for the full summit costs summit will bring Environmental Protection Agency, who $299. Student registration is $50. will speak about the future of WaterSense Booths are available for the Green together water leaders for New Homes program; and Doug Expo and Green Home Show for Bennett from the Southern Nevada Water $499. Contact Glenn Schiffbauer at from the West. Authority. Bennett will speak on “No [email protected] or go to On that Sunday, the public can also attend Water, No Growth.” www.santafegreenchamber.org. Related any of 12 free sessions on water presented pre-summit courses are being offered at Santa by northern New Mexico water experts. This national summit will highlight Santa Fe Community College. More information Subjects will include water-efficiency Fe’s leadership role in water conservation and registration details can be found at techniques for homeowners; the food, and bring together other water leaders www.nextgenerationwatersummit.com  energy, water nexus; the Residential Green from the West who work in stormwater Building Code Update; the Aamodt management, water reuse and water settlement update; the use of the Water efficiency. The summit is happening at this ® Efficiency Rating Score, and other topics. time in part because The WERS (Water The following two days will feature Efficiency Rating Score) protocol is now speakers from around the country offering mandatory for anyone building a house in presentations that address water issues in the city of Santa Fe. ZIA PERMACULTURE the Southwest. There will be follow-up Permaculture Design Course opportunities for participants to actualize The summit will target three tracks, all of ® May 17, 2017 ideas and solutions that come out of the which relate to the value of using WERS : • Permaculture Systems Design summit’s discussions. the Builder/Architect/Developer; Water • Natural Building Techniques District Professionals; and Water Harvesting • Renewable Technologies Santa Fean Ed Mazria, founder of the Professionals. “If we don’t figure out how to • Foraging, shelter building & tracking 2030 Challenge, is one of two keynote get to net-zero on water,” says Shanahan, • Fermentation, medicine making & food storage speakers at the summit. The other is Mary “the homebuilding industry will be imperiled • Beekeeping & mushroom cultivation Ann Dickinson of the Alliance for Water within a generation. Future generations of • Nutrition & Herbalism Efficiency, who will talk about the Net homebuilders in the western United States We will also take time to visit local hot springs, visit other Blue Ordinance Initiative. Some of the will look back on this important water permaculture sites & play in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. other speakers: Santa Fe Mayor Javier summit as the starting point for addressing Gonzales; Santa Fe Area Homebuilder the limitations that water availability imposes www.ziapermaculture.com/permaculture-design-course Call 575-613-6158 Association’s (SFAHBA) executive officer, upon our industry.” www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • May 2017 13 Standardization does not teach INNOVATION.

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14 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com AN INTRODUCTION to the WATER EFFICIENCY RATING SCORE (WERS®) Mike Collignon

he use of analytics, modeling and metrics is increasing, whether it’s in advertising, sports or social media.T Now it’s making its way into the construction industry. In the energy- efficiency world, there is the Home Energy Rating System (HERS) and the Project teams will have the ability to use Department of Energy’s Home Energy the WERS® Design Tool to view initial Score (HES). Water efficiency now has estimates of the results of their proposed a performance-based metric: The Water installed fixtures and appliances, as well as Efficiency Rating Score, or WERS®. innovative water conservation strategies, without the involvement of a WERS® extends to the implementation of the in Energy and Environmental Design) for What is WERS®? Verifier. In order to obtain a WERS® WERS® Program. Homes as compliance paths for water. WERS® is a predictive, performance- certification, the project team will need to based approach to residential enlist the services of a qualified third-party On its own, the WERS® Program can The GreenHome Institute (GHI), after water-efficiency and water-resource WERS® Verifier, who will then check that help a property owner understand where months of discussion, scrutiny and testing, management. WERS® is the culmination fixtures, appliances and strategies have been and how water is being used. Without has started the process of implementing the of calculations that consider the loading installed or implemented as claimed. Once this knowledge, it’s difficult to determine WERS® Program as the water criteria for from principal plumbing fixtures, clothes the project has been verified, documentation the most cost-effective conservation GreenStar, its residential green building washers, structural waste and outdoor is sent to the Green Builder® Coalition for strategies. For those who utilize wells, program available nationwide. Projects water management. Potential rainwater, certification processing. The certification the combination of the projections and that achieve predetermined WERS® will greywater, stormwater and blackwater document that is issued could then be the deeper insight into their system’s obtain a majority of their water points for catchment are also calculated. The utilized by the project team for anything capabilities can help manage overall water various certification levels. “Home energy WERS® Program is applicable for from compliance with a water-conservation usage. This can prove very helpful when scores and models are now becoming the both new and existing single-family tax credit or incentive to a local building faced with extended dry spells. norm, said Brett Little, executive director of and multifamily residential properties. code that requires third-party verification. GHI. “Why not water next? It just makes It uses a scoring scale of zero to 100, A performance-based sense. You can’t manage what you don’t with zero being the most desirable and How is WERS® being used? measure, and you easily weed out most 100 representing the baseline home. In Unlike a prescriptive program, a program gives the waste through informed design.” addition to the score, the property owner performance-based program gives all Growing Support also receives a daily, monthly and yearly parties (architect/designer, builder, property architect/designer, projection of water usage and, if water owner) design and product flexibility. It In addition to the entities mentioned rates are entered, a cost projection over doesn’t require anything. Rather, it assesses builder and property above, the WERS® Program has received those same time intervals. the choices made. The same flexibility promotional support from both the owner design and National Ground Water Association (NGWA) and the American Rainwater product flexibility Catchment Systems Association (ARCSA). A voluntary modeling tool is just one way to Meanwhile, the WERS® — Manufacturer use the WERS® Program. It can be adopted program currently has two members, Evolve as a regulation. In October 2016, the City Technologies and EcoVie Environmental, of Santa Fe became the first municipality LLC. Both manufacturers are offering in the nation to integrate a performance- discounts on specific products deployed on based water-efficiency requirement in projects pursuing WERS® certification. its residential green building code. The By the end of 2017, the number of County of Santa Fe is taking a long look manufacturers is expected to double. at the WERS® Program to determine how it might want to implement this innovative From the start of 2015 through March new approach to water efficiency. 2017, the WERS® Program will have been a part of 22 educational sessions at national n The State of New Mexico allows a builder or regional conferences. or new property owner to attach a WERS® report to show compliance with the new Mike Collignon is the executive director

© Seth Roffman water-efficiency requirement of the state’s and co-founder of the Green Builder® very popular Sustainable Building Tax Coalition. He is also chair of the WERS® Members of the Water Efficiency Rating Score (WERS® ) development team received a Sustainable Santa Fe Award from NM Sen. Peter Wirth in 2015. L-R: David Dunlap, Credit. The WERS® Program joins Build Development Group. He can be reached at Teri Buhl, Bill Roth, Kim Shanahan, Amanda Hatherly, Doug Pushard, Nancy Avedesian Green New Mexico and LEED (Leadership [email protected].

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16 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com NEXT GENERATION GREEN BUILDING CODES: MODELED PERFORMANCE Katherine Mortimer

n 2009 the City of Santa Fe adopted a green building code for new single-family As the number of building residences. The code addressed building energy use, water conservation, greenhouse permits for new homes started gases embedded in building materials, indoor air quality, lot design and homeowner to return to normal levels, education.I Recently, the city, in consultation with the local building community, adopted there was renewed interest in a major change in the code focused more specifically on energy, water and indoor air improving required building quality, using three performance standards. energy efficiency and adding a water performance requirement. The big (good) news is…there’s no more checklist! Most green building programs use The checklist had included an a checklist of items in a range of topic areas. The process of collecting cut sheets and air-ventilation performance verifying percentages of recycled material and a host of other verification activities requirement as well. Under the takes an inordinate amount of time, which equates to money. new performance-based code update, HERS® measures a Santa Fe’s 2009 checklist format had six topic areas with minimum point requirements home’s expected energy use; in each. These had to be verified at least twice—once to get a building permit and again WERS® measures a home’s during or at the end of construction. However, one component of the program was expected water use; and a specific different. These residences also needed to get a specific Home Energy Rating Score amount of ventilation based on (HERS®) index. At the time it was a score of 70, which was about 30 percent more the number of bedrooms and the energy-conserving than the 2006 International Residential Code. This is an example size of the home ensures healthy of a performance requirement. It didn’t matter how you got to that number. People indoor air quality. A few items would increase the building insulation, purchase more efficiency equipment such as from the checklist that emerged heating, air conditioning, water heating and dishwashers, use passive solar design and/or as universal best practices were install photovoltaic solar panels. Builders and designers reported that they appreciated added as requirements, and the the flexibility that this performance requirement provided. code became a performance code. Get the expected At the same time the green code was adopted in 2009 the city also adopted a resolution “mileage” in water, energy and to improve building energy-efficiency over time to meet the 2030 Challenge. The 2030 air exchanges and include a few Challenge is that all new buildings be carbon-neutral by the year 2030. That means specific requirements, and throw increasing the efficiency by several percentage points every few years. Unfortunately, away the checklist. the economic downturn severely affected the home-building industry, and when the time came for increasing the requirement, no one wanted to make building in Santa There are some new costs such Fe any more expensive. So we waited. as contracting for a WERS® professional to show that In the meantime, a group of local water conservation specialists, builders, designers the home meets the required and energy raters saw an opportunity to develop a tool to determine a home’s water score and then verifying the efficiency, as HERS® did for energy. This tool would include both indoor and outdoor installation and flowrate of water to get a picture of the total water consumption. This team found a national non- water equipment. However profit green building organization that saw the potential of this new tool and had the those costs are more than offset resources to develop it. The Water Efficiency Rating Score or WERS® tool came into by not having to complete the being, allowing the city to consider moving away from the checklist-based program checklist and demonstrate to one that is fully performance-based. that the building will make the points in all six sections. Performance-based means that the building is designed to reduce water and The city has now developed a energy use, just as a hybrid car allows for better gas mileage. That doesn’t mean homeowner’s manual rather than having developers create their own. Builders only need to that every house will have specific and predictable water and energy bills. Just like download and print the most recent version and add a few items such as a diagram showing a hybrid car, if you drive it in a way to maximize your gas efficiency, you can get the location of major utility shutoffs and the manuals for major equipment and appliances. even better gas mileage than the car’s rating. Similarly, if it is driven with frequent Even with increasing the required energy efficiency, analysis shows that the overall cost of quick speeding up and slowing down, the car will get worse gas mileage than the compliance will have a net cost savings in almost all cases. sticker says. It is the same for water and energy use in a home. Two people might live in a 3-bedroom home and use less water than predicted, while another family By using a performance model, the city hopes to be able to add commercial buildings to the in an identical home with two adults and two teenagers involved in sports, who green code. Existing models available for commercial buildings are expensive to comply with shower frequently and have lots of laundry, would likely use more water and energy. and expensive for the city to administer. Performance modeling of commercial buildings would The scores measure the predicted water and energy use of a “typical” number of mean it would be just as easy to ensure water-and energy-efficiency and indoor air quality in occupants based on the number of bedrooms, using national water- and energy- commercial buildings as in residential. Stay tuned to see this further development of the green use data, adjusted for climate. code once the WERS® tool is expanded to model commercial buildings. 

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18 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com WHAT WATER IS RIGHT? Doug Pushard

ater, water everywhere, but what is right for me? With water we do have lots of choices and notW all are created equal. You are probably wondering what I am talking about. What choices, what water?

Of course there is city water that most of us utilize abundantly. But we also have rainwater, greywater and blackwater. All of these are Fig. 1 potential sources of water that could be used to drive our net water use to zero or better; helping us to become a net producer of water.

Each one of these waters has different Current Water Use Patterns characteristics that make it well suited for a primary, secondary and tertiary use. Each type of water has different upfront costs and varies on impact of net water use. For example, city water has chlorine added to help keep it disinfected one route to our homes from the distribution plant. This same chemical may create healthy water for us, but over the long-term is not healthy for plants. It creates salt build-up in the soil that rainwater and fertilizers help offset. Fig. 2

So city water is a good primary source of potable water, but should be secondary or tertiary when it comes to landscape water use. Future Water Use Pattern See Fig. 1 for a summary of the characteristics of each source of water.

Of course, the advantage of city water is that it is plumbed to almost every house and it is relatively cheap. The disadvantage is that it is not right for all uses. Looking at the sources of water without considering costs would result in a much different water use pattern. For example, if all homes were plumbed for water storage and had water filtration systems, we would use the best water for the right use to minimize or eliminate our water footprint. See Fig. 2 for “Current Water Use Patterns.” Fig. 3

Looking at our water use from this perspective Santa Fe area resident that has mirrored this would be healthier, producing more fruit, Doug Pushard is an rather than our water use pattern might look water use pattern is using just 15 gallons per vegetables, flowers and shade at a much EPA WaterSense partner something like the following. See Fig.3 for day per person (GPCD). Compare this to lower water cost than today. Our need to with Certification in “Future Water Use Patterns.” our citywide average of 90 gallons! This does be taxed to secure future water sources and Irrigation Auditing. not require a radical take-no-showers lifestyle build new filtration plants would be all but He is an active member Blackwater, greywater and rainwater all change; it only requires a change of how we eliminated for the foreseeable future. of the City of Santa Fe require some form of onsite treatment think about water. Instead of thinking tap Water Conservation to be able to use as depicted in the chart water is free and all other water is water, think We have vast amounts of wasted water Committee and was a co-founder of the above. These technologies exist today and of all water as precious and lifegiving. today. We must view this water not as Water Efficiency Rating Score (WERS®). are very feasible. waste, but as precious and irreplaceable. Pushard designs and consults on rainwater Aside from the obvious benefits of saving With this mindset we will begin to change and water-reuse systems locally and around If implemented in this fashion our water water and extending our water supplies well our behavior and assure our water security the country. [email protected] footprint would drop significantly. One local into the 22nd century, our plants and soils for decades to come.  www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • May 2017 19 CITY OF SANTA FE UNVEILS RAIN GARDEN SANTA FE WATER CONSERVATION AND TREATMENT A new “rain garden” on West Alameda, across from Sicomoro Street, will harvest In the arid Southwest, water con- large quantities of stormwater, while preventing erosion and reducing pollution. servation has become a part of the collective consciousness. Low- With the Santa Fe Watershed flow toilets and plumbing fix- Association’s leadership and tures along with xeriscaping have the efforts of the National Fish significantly reduced residential and Wildlife Foundation, water usage. The City of Santa Fe The RainCatcher, Southwest also recognizes there is a signifi- Courtesy New Water Innovations Urban Hydrology, and with cant potential for additional water support from Wells Fargo savings from commercial customers and is offering a water rebate for any savings Bank, the City of Santa Fe over .25 acre-feet of water (81,463 gallons). For information on this, contact Lisa hosted the garden’s unveiling Randall of the Santa Fe Water Conservation Department, 505.467.2000, or visit on April 8. “This is a classic www.santafenm.gov/water_conservation example of a successful public-private partnership,” One of the most significant opportunities for savings is on commercial cooling tow- Mayor Javier Gonzales said. The new Rain Garden in action ers, which are used in air-conditioning systems found in large commercial buildings. Cooling towers cool by evaporating water and require water to be drained (blow- The rock-plated, compost- down) to avoid a buildup of minerals in the tower’s water. A single medium-sized infused infiltration-basin is part of a series of similar structures that make up the tower will blow-down more than 1 million gallons in a single cooling season. Santa Fe River Demonstration Rain Gardens project, which have been installed over the last several years under the guidance of the SFWA. The structures reduce Technology exists that can greatly reduce the chemicals used in cooling towers common stormwater pollutants from directly entering the Santa Fe River and its and as much as 95 percent of the blow-down water. A local company, New Water tributaries. The goal of this larger “green infrastructure” project is to absorb 300,000 Innovations, provides environmentally conscious solutions to a variety of water gallons of water per year. Andy Otto, the association’s president said, “We must quality and water conservation issues, including for commercial cooling towers, allow the precipitation that falls on our watershed to stay in our watershed and boilers and contaminated water. The company can be reached at 505.216.1774, infiltrate down to the aquifers from whence our wells draw. These aquifers become www.newwaterinnovations.com an insurance policy for part of our future water source.”

Widespread impervious “grey infrastructure,” such as concrete, asphalt and roof- ALBUQUERQUE BERNALILLO COUNTY WATER tops, has taken its toll on every urban watershed. “As our urban footprint has grown, AUTHORITY’S “TREE-BATE” PROGRAM unmanaged runoff has created enormous damage, not only in our river but also Trees, while they do require water to survive, actually aid water conservation by within our arroyo systems,” the city’s River and Watershed coordinator, Melissa providing shade and reducing water loss to evaporation, as well as providing other McDonald, said. “We should see every storm as a resource.” environmental benefits.

Among the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority’s incentives to help EYEonWATER: AN APP FOR its customers make their landscapes more water-efficient are its “tree-bate” pro- SANTA FE WATER CUSTOMERS gram, which can result in a $100 water bill credit for residential customers and a Santa Fe’s residential water use, thanks to low-flow toilets and other water-saving $500 credit for non-residential customers to help cover the costs of tree care and devices, along with a general awareness of the need to conserve, is about 59 gallons maintenance, as well as the purchase of trees that use little water. Twenty recom- per person per day, well below the 80 to 100 gallons used by people in other areas of mended trees appear in the authority’s xeriscape guide. The authority’s website the United States. (www.abcwua.org/Outdoor_Rebates.aspx) provides links for self-guided tours to view mature trees at the UNM main campus and the Río Grande Botanic Garden. EyeOnWater, a new app promoted by the City of Santa Fe’s Water Division, gives the city’s customers more information and control about how they use water and Other water-saving measures customers can use to achieve rebates include xeriscap- allows them to interact with the Water Division. People can now find out how much ing yards and using special types of irrigation or rainwater harvesting. Albuquerque’s their household uses, when usage is high, and be alerted to a leak. Gardeners can Water by Numbers watering restrictions is in effect. Watering outside is only allowed now see how much their garden is using. To download, visit eyeonwater.com or fol- two days per week, between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in April and May, three days per week low the link on savewatersantafe.com in the summer, and it is reduced again in the fall until Oct. 31.

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4. - The Chainbreaker Community Center, 2 - 4 Food, refreshments, childcare and bilingual services provided PROFILE of the SANTA FE WATERSHED th ASSOCIATION on its 20 ANNIVERSARY Kristina G. Fisher

ith education, stewardship, city in New Mexico to set aside water to advocacy and on-the-ground provide for annual river flows. For over 15 restoration, the Santa Fe years, the SFWA has been taking care of WatershedW Association has worked 18 miles of the Santa Fe River corridor tirelessly since 1997 to protect and restore through its Adopt-the-River program the health and vibrancy of the Santa Fe in partnership with the city and county, River and its watershed for the benefit of local businesses, foundations, community people and the environment. members and volunteers. Over one million pounds of trash have been removed from Through its education the riverbed—the equivalent of 40 school buses of trash! programs, SFWA Other restoration efforts have included teaches and inspires removing non-native elms, planting native cottonwood trees, and building future environmental bio-retention basins (or “rain gardens”) to capture rainfall and help it infiltrate into stewards. groundwater aquifers where it will feed the When the river comes to life with flowing river and recharge the city’s wells. SFWA water each spring, it is thanks in part to is now working to expand its stewardship SFWA’s advocacy of the 2012 “Santa Fe efforts to embrace the more than 80 miles River Target Flow for a Living River” of arroyos in the Santa Fe Watershed with ordinance, which made Santa Fe the first a new Adopt-an-Arroyo program. © Seth Roffman Viewing the Santa Fe River from the bridge at Alto Park Through its education programs, SFWA teaches and inspires future environmental stewards. reduce their carbon and water footprints. Kristina G. Fisher SFWA’s My Water, My is president of the Watershed classes give As they pick up trash, help construct a rain Board of the Santa Fe hundreds of elementary garden, learn from their children about the Watershed Association. and middle school source of our drinking water, or attend a In 2015, the SFWA students the opportunity City Council meeting to testify for a living was honored with the to hike into the upper river, Santa Fe Watershed members and Courageous Innovation watershed, learn about volunteers are touched, inspired and drawn Piñón Award from forest ecology, and into the movement to build a healthy, the Santa Fe Community Foundation. discover where the water functioning watershed that will sustain our www.santafewatershed.org in their faucets comes community long into the future.  from. For many of these students, this is their first 3530 Zafarano C-3 Mon. - Sat. hike into the woods and SOUTH SIDE 11a - 9p their only field trip of the SANTA FE school year. Sunday 505.471.0108 11a - 3p SFWA also organizes adult classes, forums, hikes and van trips into ITALIAN • MEDITERRANEAN • QUALITY the protected upper full menu at watershed to help connect www.cafegrazie.net Santa Feans with their follow us at river. SFWA’s Climate facebook.com/cafegraziesantafe Masters program teaches Santa Feans how to adapt comfort food to climate change and serving warmly served wine & Beer made with love View from a bridge: from high-quality The Santa Fe River in ingredients © Seth Roffman April 2017

www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • May 2017 21 JOURNEY SANTA FE’S 10 YEARS of WEEKLY COMMUNITY DIALOGUES Seth Roffman

ourneySantaFe was created to offer a platform to all sectors of the community and to provide ideas and Jinformation “that can effect change and solutions for the greater good.” Since 2007, JSF has offered weekly presentations by notable people who are engaged in environmental, social, cultural, political and policy issues that impact Santa Fe and New Mexico. Journey’s events take place every Sunday at 11 a.m. for about an hour, at Collected Works bookstore. The dialogues are usually moderated by author/entrepreneur Alan Webber or former KSFR News Director Bill Dupuy.

The events are recorded by Geoff Cheshire © Melissa Williams and broadcast on subsequent Sundays at 5 A typical Sunday morning at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse in Santa Fe p.m. on KSFR, 101.1 FM. Webber has encouraged the program series. Webber has invited Some examples: Fred Nathan, presenters from around the state who executive director of Think New news organizations to run organizations involved with current Mexico; Doug Meiklejohn, issues and the political scene. Webber executive director of the New “dig for the story behind has encouraged news organizations to Mexico Environmental Law “dig for the story behind the story,” and Center; Mike Loftin, executive the story,” and that is that is often what JSF does. “The silence director of Homewise; Ona of acquiescence is not acceptable,” Porter, executive director, often what JSF does. Webber says. Prosperity Works; Javier Although JSF is a team effort, since its Gonzales, mayor of Santa Fe; inception, Melissa Williams has been In addition to Williams and Webber, JSF’s Inez Gomez Russell, editorial the event’s central coordinator. Williams programming committee includes Bill and page editor for the Santa Fe © Seth Roffman Poets Elizabeth Raby and James has a talent for connecting people with Ellen Dupuy; attorney Denise Fort; Lois New Mexican; Simon Brackley, McGrath those shaping the issues of the day and Manno of the New Mexico Wilderness president of the Santa Fe Chamber of opening a space for conversations and Alliance, Santa Fe Watershed Association Commerce; Greg Mello, director of interaction. Williams said, “Journey Director Andy Otto; poet Elizabeth Raby Los Alamos Study Group; Aaron Stern, has been a tremendous volunteer effort and her husband, Jim; and Green Fire Times president of the Academy for the Love to make the programs happen every Editor Seth Roffman. of Learning; Joe Maestas, Santa Fe week for 10 years.” Alan Webber, former city councilor; Todd López, attorney/ Harvard Business Review editor and JSF’s presenters have included journalists, community educator; Penn LaFarge, founder of Fast Company Magazine, has authors, representatives from community president of the Old Santa Fe Association; also been a strong influence in shaping and statewide organizations and activists. Peter Simonson, executive director of the ACLU of New Mexico; Daniel Tso, Navajo activist against fracking in the Chaco QUOTES FROM A FEW OF JSF’S SPEAKERS Canyon area; William DeBuys, author/ conservationist; John Nichols, author; and “Journey Santa Fe’s vision of progressive dialogue each Sunday created a much- Marcela Díaz, executive director, Somos needed platform for democratic engagement. Having this forum to dialogue with un Pueblo Unido. constituents makes me a better representative.” — NM State Sen. Peter Wirth JSF’s speakers are not paid, but a basket is passed around at the end of their “I find I usually come away having learned something myself or at least having a presentation. JSF’s programing committee new perspective on my positions opened up. It is always stimulating.” forwards donations it receives to people or — NM State Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino organizations of the speaker’s choice.

“Journey is a necessary weekly dose of engaged discussion about our problems— For more information, to view upcoming on this planet and in this place we live. Reality beats reality TV every time; a mind JSF presentations or sign up for JSF’s JSF founder Melissa Williams is a terrible thing to waste.” weekly email newsletter, visit www. — Teacher/activist Mark Rudd journeysantafe.com 

22 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com © Seth Roffman © Seth Roffman © Melissa Williams Daniel Tso uses a map to point out areas being fracked Alan Webber with Somos un Pueblo Unido’s Ellen and Bill Dupuy in northwest New Mexico Marcela Díaz

JOURNEY SANTA FE’S MAY WATER AND WATERSHEDS IN NM SERIES Every Sunday at 11 am in May, Journey Santa Fe, in association with the Santa Fe Watershed Association, is presenting a speaker focused on different aspects of water and watersheds in New Mexico. Andy Otto, SFWA’s executive director, will moderate these talks.

May 7: Emeritus professor of law, G. Emlen Hall, will speak on Water Tales from the St. Augustine Plains. Hall will discuss the pending application to drill and pump 54,000 acre-feet per year from a ranch in Catron County. The developers propose to pipe that water 130 miles up the Río Grande, where it would be offered for sale to water-short cities. Albuquerque, Río Rancho and other municipalities have yet to commit themselves to purchasing the water. Hall will assess the controversial project against © Melissa Williams the historical, legal, scientific and human background of the proposal. Webber with Santa Fe New Mexican editorial page editor Inez Gomez Russell Hall has written three books: Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant from 1800 to 1936 (1984); High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River (2002), and Reining in the Río Grande (with Phillips and Black) (2011).

May 14: John Fleck, a science journalist with 30 years of newspaper experience, more than two decades at the Albuquerque Journal, will speak on Water is for Fighting Over and Other Myths About Water in the West. His book by the same name (Island Press) is subtitled An Exploration of Solutions to the Colorado River Basin’s Water Problems.

Fleck’s perspective includes showing how the region’s communities have been adapting to changing circumstances, learning to do more with less, and how, in some instances, it may be possible to collaborate rather than fight over water.

May 21: Claudia Borchert is Santa Fe County’s sustainability manager. She is working with the county’s administration and the community in areas of recycling/ solid waste, energy efficiency and renewable energy, transportation, and water resources. For the three previous years, Borchert was the director of the county’s water and wastewater utility. As a water manager and planner for the City of Santa Fe for over 10 years, she worked on policies like the Living River Ordinance, the Long Range Water Supply Plan and shortage-sharing agreements.

May 28

© Seth Roffman : Phil Bové will present a brief history of acequias in Santa Fe, the St. John’s College President problems acequias had with the water companies that built reservoirs on the Santa Mark Roosevelt Fe River and what they did to get water. He will talk about the remaining acequias in Santa Fe and what the future for them looks like, then present a short video about the annual cleaning of the Acequia Madre. © Seth Roffman

New Mexico Secretary of State Bové has been a commissioner on the Acequia Madre de Santa Fe since 1983 Maggie Toulouse Oliver and on the Santa Fe River Commission since 2009. He and his wife of 52 years, Eleanor, live in the same house on Acequia Madre where she was born.

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very year at this time, cleaning our mountains this year, especially with the The tall grasses common around Santa Fe, The people have the Acequia Madre is paramount late snows, and we are anxiously awaiting such as orchard and western wheat grass, on our minds. As the mayordomo a good stream of water. have deep root systems and very tall blade a common goal of used to say, “It is the first priority.” To the stalks. We like these types of grasses to be keeping this ancient Eold people, it was time to sacar (clean out) At the first signs of spring the on the acequia banks because they hold the the waterways. I like to hear stories of the mayordomo and the commissioners of soil so well. The dried blades of grass on the piece of Santa Fe old parciantes (water-rights owners), like the acequia will discuss, walk parts of the edges of the waterway have to be trimmed the time there was a fish in the acequia, acequia, and talk to the parciantes about back with a shovel, or if too thick, cut with history functioning. escaped from the reservoirs; or when they the condition of the waterway. If major a weed trimmer and removed so that the would wait for St. John’s Feast day, when repairs are needed they will determine if water can flow quickly and unimpeded. everyone would enjoy the water. Making the annual assessment to the members dams to trap the water was fun. They should be increased to pay for repairs. All the information gathered about the weren’t deep enough to swim in; only to Or they may determine that a work conditions of the waterway is discussed at wade in ankle-deep. We would wet our crew of members can make the repairs the annual meeting, which usually is held scalp, then the parents would tell us to go themselves. The officers make note of about 30 days before the annual acequia ahead. The kids would spend hours getting conditions on the acequia to pass on to cleaning. The Acequia Madre, including glass and rocks out of the way so they could the members when they are cleaning the its three laterals (Acequia Ranchitos, upper Top: Property owners, neighbors and spend the day in the acequia. In those days ditch. Some sections where gophers have and lower Acequia Analco) is nearly seven volunteers clean out the “Mother there was a lot of water, but now there are invaded and closed off the waterway with miles long. It takes about four weeks to clean Ditch” each spring. limited flows. It has everything to do with their own engineering talents may need the portions west of Old Santa Fe Trail to the snowpack. We have a good snowpack in to be dug out. the village of Agua Fría. The section from

24 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com Acequia farmers, youth and advocates outside the Roundhouse on Acequia Day, Feb. 16, 2017

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What They Mean for New Mexico Rachel Conn

ater is precious in New • The Rule was finalized in August 2015, Mexico. Without it, our way and then on Oct. 9, 2015 the U.S. Court of life is threatened and our of Appeals for the 6th Circuit stayed the communitiesW suffer. Rule nationwide, pending further action of the court. On Feb. 28, 2017 President Trump • The Rule restores prior protections signed an executive order rolling back the that once existed for a variety of water Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) bodies, from tributaries to traditionally Clean Water Rule, also known as the navigable waters. In New Mexico, Waters of the U.S. Rule. This order reverses traditional navigable waters are only the years of work to ensure that New Mexicans mainstems of five river systems—the have clean water needed for drinking, Río Grande, Canadian, Pecos, Gila and irrigating and recreating. The order directs San Juan. © Seth Roffman (2) the EPA’s director, Scott Pruitt, to initiate • The Rule reduces permitting delays. Antonio Medina, from Mora, a Concillio member of the NM Acequia Association, addresses the audience at the state capitol at a “Water Is Sacred” demonstration. the lengthy legal process of rescinding and rewriting the rule. This could take years. Why the Rule Is Important to New Mexico This order and the president’s proposed RÍO RANCHO AQUIFER PROJECT budget foreshadow a grim future for water • Tributary streams such as the Santa A $5.6-million project to inject millions of gallons of recycled water into an aquifer will quality across the state. Fe River, Río Hondo, Gallinas, Red be operating soon. The advanced treatment facility in Río Rancho—the first of its kind River and Río Pueblo provide water for in New Mexico—includes a two-million-gallon concrete tank. Advanced Oxidation The president’s budget would cut a third acequias, wildlife and recreation. These Treatment, a process that cleans biologically toxic or non-biodegradable materials such of the EPA’s funding. The cuts include waters need protection from unregulated as pesticides, petroleum constituents and volatile organic compounds in wastewater, getting rid of the agency’s nonpoint source dumping and pollution. uses ozone, hydrogen peroxide and/or ultra-violet light. The contaminants are converted water pollution program. In New Mexico, • Many (93.6 percent) New Mexico to a large extent into stable inorganic compounds such as water, carbon dioxide and salts. this would gut $1.3 million used by the state tributaries are ephemeral or intermittent. Environment Department’s Surface Water They flow into the state’s main river The facility will be able to upgrade up to one million gallons per day to drinking Quality Bureau to implement watershed systems, provide wildlife habitat, and standards. The water will then be pumped into streams, used for sewage treatment protection programs. It would also eliminate are used for livestock watering and or injected into the city’s aquifer, to be later retrieved by nearby active wells. hundreds of thousands of dollars for on-the- irrigation. The Rule restores Clean Water Río Rancho funded the project through a New Mexico Finance Authority Water ground restoration projects such as a project Act protection to many of these waters. Trust Board loan and grant funding. that addresses E.coli pollution on the Río At least 280,000 people in New Mexico Fernando de Taos; a project in the Valles receive drinking water from sources that FRACKING SCORECARD EVALUATES Caldera to plant more than 33,000 riparian rely at least in part on ephemeral or NM’S OIL AND GAS PRODUCERS plants to decrease turbidity and temperature intermittent tributaries. “Disclosing the Facts,” a fracking scorecard on the on Jaramillo Creek; projects on the Río • 20 percent of the state’s vertebrate environmental record of New Mexico’s top 10 oil and gas Cebolla to reduce sediment loading; and a wildlife depend upon ephemeral and producers indicated that, despite improvements, most of $200,000 project to address pollution in the intermittent waters. the companies that use hydraulic fracturing fared poorly. 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30 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com OP-ED THE COUNTERCULTURE: A GREAT UNDERGROUND Jack Loeffler

ack Kerouac referred to it as the Address, now more clearly portends “... Jack Loeffler is co-curator subterraneans in his novel of that name. government of the people by the corporate of an exhibition entitled Gary Snyder traces it back in time as powers who control the government.” Voices of Counterculture Jthe great underground. Asha Greer refers This is not defensible in a democracy. Our in the Southwest, opening to it as the marginaux. Theodore Roszak nation’s principles have been subsumed by at the New Mexico dubbed it the counterculture in 1969. I the economically privileged. Our cultural History Museum at the think of it as a great stream of interwoven attitude has been severely damaged by years Palace of the Governors cultures of practice of resistance and creative of ethical inertia. None of us are faultless. on May 14, 2017. It runs through Feb. 11, alternatives to a mainstream culture whose 2018. With Meredith hierarchy are defined by economic status, We have fallen into a cultural ethical Davidson, he has co- white supremacy, and politics governed lassitude that is difficult to define, let alone edited a book of the by corporate mandate. The Civil Rights reverse. In my opinion, this is due in part same title, published Movement, Black Panther Movement, to our gradual separation of attention away by the Museum of New Women’s Liberation Movement, Gay from the natural world, our homeland. Mexico Press. Liberation Movement, Psychedelic Instead, we have refocused our attention on Movement, Chicano Movement, American the wonders that we have created with our Indian Movement, Back-to-the Land phenomenal evolving technical knowhow, nation-state as the defining political rules of conduct, and those rare pieces of Movement and the Radical Environmental thus diverting our attention away from the entity. That period of history is ready healthy legislation designed to protect the Movement have all contributed to a mighty biotic community that naturally sustains to pass as all periods of history do pass, environment and its denizens are being stream of intertwined perspectives that us—and which now requires a heightening and we’re moving now in the direction overturned by newly appointed corporate have re-shaped the cultural consciousness level of human reciprocity if it is to flourish of the recognition of organic forms at moguls who control the government. The of America and beyond. It was the in its present form. all different levels. The most important United States government can no longer environmental movement that finally of those levels is the most local, and that be trusted to govern judiciously. elevated habitat itself to be perceived as This is a tough call after so many generations localism comes down, I think, finally having inviolable rights. have become ever more embedded in the to very small units, to neighborhoods, But then can any institution? Institutions anthropocentric world that shapes and at least. What you recognize about and their attendant bureaucracies exist reshapes our cultural mores, our attitudes, neighborhoods immediately is that they largely to defend procedures of their own The cultural diversity our perspectives, to the exclusion of a are organic. You can’t tell something by invention. They are founded by humans and that prevails [in the bigger picture of our species’ place in this drawing straight lines on a map, ‘This is are fundamentally anthropocentric in nature, world. We who live in the North American going to be a neighborhood.’ You can and thus exist for their own sake. Some may Southwest] reveals Southwest have a lot of space in which only ask it ‘What is the neighborhood be founded on altruistic principles, but they to roam, more headspace to free our here?’, and then it defines itself. And you inevitably become too rigid to accommodate perspectives we would thinking, vast diversity to free us from the move up from there to the city and then change. Change is a fundamental principle rut of linear thinking. Indeed the cultural the organic relationship between a city of Nature. To the greatest extent that I can, do well to assimilate diversity that prevails here even now reveals and its surrounding countryside. There I trust to the inspiration of the moment. I perspectives we would do well to assimilate again, you can’t tell an area what that take almost all of my inspiration from the into mainstream into mainstream cultural consciousness. organic relationship is going to be, but flow of Nature. Thus, for the last 50 years if you ask, if you pay attention to how or so, I remain a ‘Naturist.’ Therein lies my cultural consciousness. Daniel Kemmis do city and countryside relate to each purpose and my sense of the divine. In this time of political travesty, we would is an author and other, you see an organic form emerge. do well to refer to our countercultural political scientist I think politically we’re going to see I think that our species made an immense antecedents to not only regain perspective, whose book that happen all the way up through the mistake when we began to institutionalize but to invent new modes of conduct and Community and continental level and finally to the global our paltry perceptions of reality. It is procedure to forestall the presidential promise the Politics of Place level. I think we have to be willing to perfectly natural to seek out our ‘reason-to- of environmental and cultural disaster. In the is a fine handbook exercise citizenship and politics at all of be,’ but to institutionalize answers before early 19th century, Henry David Thoreau that helps define those levels, but I also believe that the we have the consciousness to perceive the wrote his celebrated essay Resistance to Civil the relationship way in which nationhood has defined bigger picture is folly—the shadowy work of Government that later became known as Civil between human Daniel Kemmis our political thinking and acting is ready wizards, priests, politicians and others who Disobedience. Thoreau was resisting slavery communities and now to soften, if not dissolve.” recognize means of controlling perception, of Negroes that was finally abolished by their respective habitats. I once recorded and thence culture. This is not to say that President Abraham Lincoln. The practice of him saying: Unfortunately, our nationhood has all institutions are bad, as long as they don’t civil disobedience has tremendous relevance “What I have come to believe more hardened and is now more likely to shatter crystallize. Some are genuinely devoted to in today’s world. and more strongly is that we’re now than dissolve. Those who hold political the pursuit of knowledge, and I laud them. passing through a period in political power have tightened their reins and are Second-rate citizenry continues to prevail history that is much more profound prepared to defend their political, fiscal But beware political parties. Their purpose to this day, although slavery per se ostensibly than we’re generally aware of. What it and territorial control until our planetary is to dominate cultural consciousness—and no longer exists in America. 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We can only are what invigorate the great underground— guess at the cognitive capabilities of other the counterculture in whatever guise it species, but we can readily determine that we appears. We have the freedom of individual humans provide part of the consciousness of and collective imagination to begin to arrange the planet, Earth. our cultural attitudes to encompass profound truths hidden behind our prejudices. To wit: My old friend • Can we morally justify ever-increasing Camillus Lopez human population in a world of was born into diminishing resources like water? Tohono O’odham • Can we continue to be driven by culture of the economics at the expense of dwindling Sonoran Desert. natural habitat? His culture has • Can we accept that we are once again provided him with falling under the sway of a tiny handful the intelligence Camillus Lopez of those who have accrued enormous and intuition wealth and have thus re-established an to perceive himself as part of the biotic age-old hierarchy of alpha-governance? community to which he belongs. His • Can we perceive that we as a species tradition has taught him to disturb the have overrun our planet to the extent surrounding biotic community as little as that a shift in the nature of the greater possible, and also to perceive himself from the biotic community is now inevitable? perspective of the biotic community itself. In • Can we understand that Nature will Camillus’ own words: eventually subsume human endeavor? “Community is everything. It’s the stars. It’s the ground way under. It’s the little How do we react ethically to the daunting ant that comes across. It’s Coyote. It’s array of societal problems that have the buzzard. Your actions reflect who you emerged as a result of our cultural and are. And if you can see yourself in it, then individual complacency? you’re there. But if you can’t look at Nature and see yourself in it, then you’re too far First, we forward the imperative that we must away. That’s why I think one of the things limit and decrease the size of the human people need to do is go out and look at the population on the planet by natural attrition. mirror of Nature and try to see themselves Concurrently, we react from where we are. We in it. Because if they can see themselves are citizens of a place that is characterized in it, then they can help themselves by by its nature. We live in a watershed, a biotic helping the environment.” community, a biome, a bioregion. We inhabit a continent that is a patchwork of biomes. I know of no more sound advice from There are biota that belong here, biotic anyone anywhere. If one can see one’s communities that have evolved here, biotic self reflected in Nature’s mirror, answers communities that include humans whose as to how to comport one’s self in today’s cultures evolved here in the post-Pleistocene strange milieu become ever more apparent. North American Southwest. So jump into the flow of Nature, wash out the detritus, and help Nature take its course Thereafter, we collaboratively determine with life and consciousness. They’re Nature’s the needs of our natural biotic community greatest gift and can be used wisely and well. relative to the needs of our inhabiting human cultures of practice and find balance between And thus counterculture evolves into a the two. However, the biotic community itself culture of alternative consciousness.  must determine the nature of governance and acceptable characteristics inherent in Jack Loeffler recently the human cultures of practice. 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36 Green Fire Times • May 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com NEWSBITEs the rock and the contaminated groundwater in the sparsely populated area would be “very costly and have a negative environmental impact”. WATER CASE MOVES FORWARD Aquifer Science is wholly owned by two shell corporations, one of which is a THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO’S AIR subsidiary of Vidler Water Co., a major water developer in the western U.S. During 2013, 2014 and 2015, Bernalillo and Doña Ana counties had the poorest air The company proposed a luxury resort/subdivision north of Sandia Park, but quality of the 11 (out of 33) counties monitored in New Mexico, according to the the project has been dormant (with the exception of the water rights fight) “State of the Air” 2017 report released last month by the American Lung Association. for more than a decade. The companies have spent more than $5 million to The results suggest that thousands of people in those and other areas are at increased date to obtain the water rights, which could be sold to a third party if granted. risk for asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and lung cancer. It also adds to evidence that a changing climate is making it harder to protect human health. The residents are represented by the nonprofit New Mexico Environmental Law Center. NMELC asked the court to immediately dismiss the appeal on the grounds that the To compile its report, the ALA relies on publicly available, quality-assured data application is illegally speculative—it filed the motion after Aquifer Science’s owners from monitors operated by the states, counties, federal agencies and tribes. The admitted that there is no up-to-date plan to use the water.” (Under New Mexico state report examined data for ozone and particulate pollution. Ozone indicates the law, an applicant for water is required to demonstrate that it will put water to “beneficial amount of smog in the air. It can come out of tailpipes, smokestacks and many use” immediately.) NMELC is hoping that a ruling will be handed down this summer. other sources. Ozone aggressively attacks lung tissue by reacting chemically with it. Cities in the West and Southwest continue to dominate the most ozone-polluted ALBUQUERQUE’S SOLAR PLAN list. Microscopic particle pollution could be dirt, dust or soot from wildfires, On April 23, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Albuquerque City drought, wood-burning devices, coal-fired power plants and diesel engines. The Councilors Pat Davis and Isaac Benton announced plans to sell $25 million particles can lodge deep in the lungs and trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks and in renewable energy bonds to make possible the installation of solar projects on strokes, cause lung cancer and shorten life. The report grades both daily spikes, dozens of city buildings throughout Albuquerque over the next two years. called “short-term” particle pollution, and annual average or “year-round” levels that represent the concentration of particles day-in and day-out by location. According to a city news release, the first phase of the project would create 135 jobs in Albuquerque and save taxpayers over $20 million over 30 years. As a result of the The report also says that changes seen since the previous report reflect increased oil energy savings and financing through federal bond credits, the projects will be built and gas extraction, especially in the Southwest. Cleanup of power plants in the eastern at no cost to taxpayers. U.S. have shifted the cities that experienced the greatest number of unhealthy air days.

In 2016, Albuquerque’s city council unanimously passed a resolution calling for The report credits improvements in air quality in various areas to the science-based the city to derive 25 percent of its energy from solar by 2025. Given that goal, the Clean Air Act, a public health law put into place more than 45 years ago. Some in council seems likely to approve issuing the bonds. Councilor Davis said that $25 Congress are seeking changes that would dismantle key provisions of the law. million in solar panels would put the city about halfway to that goal. It would also reinforce the city’s identity as a renewable-energy leader. ENERGY COMPANY ACQUIRES NM WIND PROJECT FOR $269 MILLION A new report from Environment New Mexico Research and Policy Center called San Francisco-based Pattern Energy has acquired the Broadview Wind Farm and its “Shining Cities” ranked Albuquerque No. 9 amongst American cities based on associated 35-mile transmission line for $269 million. The 324-MW farm (equivalent the amount of solar energy installed (fourth-most solar power per capita), with 82 to annual energy usage of about 180,000 homes), 30 miles north of Clovis, N.M., megawatts providing clean energy at the end of 2016. The high ranking is attributed, one of the highest wind areas of the West, began commercial operations in March. in part, to businesses and homeowners who have made the switch to solar power. The power it generates goes to California, helping that state transition to a carbon- free, low-cost, renewable grid. California leads the nation in renewable-energy job UNITED NUCLEAR WANTS TO LOWER growth and is aiming for 50 percent renewable power by 2030. CONTAMINATION STANDARDS United Nuclear has spent more than a decade attempting to clean up radon-226 and 228, “Pattern Development is actively developing several significant opportunities boron, fluoride, sulfate, chloride and dissolved solids at the St. Anthony uranium mine in New Mexico and the Southwest as part of the region’s increasing demand for low- in Cibola County, not far from the Pueblo of Laguna. The mine, which was operational cost, renewable energy,” said Mike Garland, the company’s president and CEO. from 1975 to 1981, includes two open pits and one underground mine.The company has asked New Mexico regulators to approve a variance for groundwater contamination The company has entered into transmission service agreements through the Western thousands of times above current standards. The Water Quality Control Commission Interconnect with Public Service Company of New Mexico and Arizona Public Service. says that wells monitored in the area continue to show contaminated groundwater exceeding state standards. The commission has scheduled a public hearing this month. Wind energy provided nearly 11 percent of all in-state electricity production for the 12-month period ending October 2016, according to the New Mexico The New Mexico Environment Department, acknowledging that a full cleanup is not State Land Office. The state’s current energy portfolio plan calls for 20 percent possible, has recommended that the commission grant the variance because removing renewables by 2020.

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Javier Gonzales. 5/3: Genoveva Chávez Meets 2nd Sat. monthly. Lisas.ccl@gmail. Marriott Pyramid Center, 3221 Rodeo Rd; 5/9: Hotel SF, 1501 MAY 13, 9:30 AM–12 PM “Opportunity Matters: Advancing the Well- Paseo de Peralta; May 13, 1–3 pm: Southside SF CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY com, http://citizensclimatelobby.org/ being of NM’s Children, Women and Families chapters/NM_Albuquerque/ Library, 6599 Jaguar Dr; May 20, 2–4 pm: Higher Ed. Center in a New Political Era.” Nationally renowned Chainbreaker, 1515 5th St. Food, refreshments, 1950 Siringo Rd., Rm. 135 keynote speakers, panels, breakout sessions, childcare, bilingual services provided. www. Working for climate change solutions that MAY 14, 9–11 AM awards. Donate.nmvoices.org/kidscount SEASONS OF GROWTH sustainablesantafe2040.com bridge the partisan divide. 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Bird Recycling Coalition, hosts two recycling to the Plaza to raise public awareness of walks, hikes, tours of the Randall Davey and two compost facility operators TUESDAYS, 6–8 PM corporate farming and business practices and home. 505.983.4609, http://nm.audubon. certification courses each year. http:// FAMILY NIGHT to advocate banning genetically engineered org/landingcenter-chapters/visiting- www.recyclenewmexico.com/trainings/ PEEC, Los Alamos, NM (GE) seeds and foods. www.facebook.com/ randall-davey-audubon-center-sanctuary The second Tuesday of every month. MarchAgainstMontsanto/ MAY 2017–JULY 2018 Games, activities experiments or crafts at SANTA FE RECYCLING NEW MEXICO AGRICULTURAL the Nature Center. 505.662.0460, www. MAY 31, 2 PM Reduce, reuse and recycle. 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Commission Vice-Chair (city), 505.992.3010 (county), 505.424.1850 in-state seminars and in Washington, D.C. 5/2: Traditional healing plants of NM; Cynthia Hall will preside. 505.827.4446, (SF Solid Waste Management Agency). 575.646.6691, [email protected], http:// 6/6: Growing daylilies; 8/1: Tree selection, [email protected] aces.nmsu.edu/nmal/application.html planting and maintenance in the high SUSTAINABLE GROWTH desert. http://sandovalmastergardeners.org JUNE 4–6 MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR SF COUNTY MAY 29–AUG. 4 NEXT GENERATION WATER Hard copies $70, CDs $2. Contact Melissa CLIMATE AND SOLAR 3RD TUES., 7 PM SUMMIT/GREEN EXPO Holmes, 505.995.2717 or msholmes@ AMBASSADOR INTERNSHIPS FOUR SEASONS GARDENING santafecounty.org. The SGMP is also available Los Alamos Study Group Office CLASSES SF Convention Center Learn about new tools and models for on the county website: www.santafecounty. Interns gain knowledge and experience in Sabana Grande Rec Center building to become radically more water- org/growth_management/sgmp and can be climate issues, renewable energy, business 4110 Sabana Grande Ave. SE, Río Rancho efficient. An event for policymakers, building reviewed at SF Public libraries and the County development and community organizing 5/16: Chickens 101. designers, builders, water conservation Administrative Building, 102 Grant Ave. and present their findings in public forums. http://sandovalmastergardeners.org professionals, water system designers, [email protected], lasg.org landscape designers, etc. Hosted by the WEDS., 10 AM City of SF, SF Green Chamber, Green Builder TAOS MAY 30–JUNE 1 GREEN HOUR HIKES Coalition, SF Area Homebuilders Association. MAY 4, 9 AM–4 PM WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE Los Alamos Nature Center, Los Alamos, NM www.NextGenerationWaterSummit.com TAOS LAND AND WATER CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Kid-centered hikes. Free. 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