2006 Resolutions
Resolutions Congreso 2006
DECLARACIÓN
*2006-04 El Agua es la Vida Declaration
Declaration that we recognize, honor, and respect water as sacred and sustaining all life, resolving to challenge the political and economic forces that drive development resulting in the transfer of water rights out of agriculuture.
GROUP 1: Concilio Approved, Congreso Affirmation
*2006-01 Seed Sovereignty Declaration
Resolving to prevent genetic contamination of seeds by creating GE free zones and collaborating between traditional Indo-Hispano communities and
*2006-03 Position on Domestic Well Regulations
Resolving to assert in administrative rulemaking that domestic well regulations violate state law by providing for expediting water transfers into domestic wells and prohibiting the transfers of water rights out of domestic wells.
*2006-03 Preventing Violence on Acequias
Condemning violence against peones and officers of acequias, resolving to educate real estate agents, judges, and district attorneys about acequias, resolving to address conflicts through traditional, peaceful approaches rather than through violence.
GROUP 2: Congreso Approved
*2006-05 Acequia Easements Education
Resolving to protect acequia easements through documentation and enforcement at the acequia level, requesting district attorneys to interpret easements for law enforcement and represent acequias in easements as appropriate, requesting real estate agents provide relevant information on easement to new property owners, and educating the public about the relevance, legal status, and significance of acequia easements.
*2006-06 Acequias as Cultural Patrimony
Resolves to support an application to UNESCO to seek status for the acequias of New Mexico as Cultural Patrimony of Humanity as part of an effort to gain recognition for their historic, cultural, and socioeconomic significance to New Mexico and the international community.
2006-07 Restoring Clean Water in Acequias and Rivers
Resolving to educate parciantes and adjacent landowners about the dangers of dumping contaminants and trash in streams and acequias, to enforce clean water regulations through state and federal laws, and to develop strategies prevent contamination from lack of wastewater treatment facilities and improper dumping of solid, chemical, radioactive waste, and urban drainage.
*2006-08 NM Food and Seed Sovereignty
Resolving to support an alliance with New Mexico Acequia Association and the Traditional Native American Farmers’ Association to advocate for creation of GE free zones in
GROUP 2: Legislative Recommendations Congreso Approved
*2006-09 Acequia-Domestic Water Legislation
Resolving to request State Legislature to clarify in state statutes that domestic wells water rights are transferable to mutual domestic water consumer associations and that acequias have the option to lease water rights to mutual domestic water consumer associations rather than being restricted to permanent transfers.
*2006-10 Eminent Domain
Resolving to prevent the condemnation of acequia water rights by municipalities, water utilities, or other state or local governmental entity by advocating reform to state statutes on eminent domain, seeking adoption of resolutions by local governments limiting the exercise of eminent domain powers, and developing strategies to stop speculative development that drives water rights away from agricultural uses.
*2006-11 Acequia Governance Funding
Resolving to request the State Legislature to support recurring funding to the Local Government Division to provide Acequia Governance Education, Training, and Technical Assistance to acequias throughout
*2006-12 Acequia Agriculture Funding
Resolving to request the State Legislature to support an appropriation to implement a planning process to rebuild local food systems through program development and infrastructure investment and to implement a farmer-to-farmer education pilot project.
*2006-13 Acequia and Community Ditch Fund
Resolving to request the State Legislature to support an appropriation to increase the amount available to acequias for adjudication defense in the Acequia Community Ditch Fund.
2006-14 Acequia Infrastructure Funding
Resolving to support acequias with capital outlay requests, to promote water storage facilities as statewide priorities, and to request the State Legislature allocate additional funding to the Irrigation Works Construction Fund dedicated to acequias or, alternatively, to the creation of an Acequia Project Fund dedicated to acequias.
GROUP 3: Legislative Recommendations Congreso Approved
*2006-15 Land, Wildlife, Clean Energy Fund
Resolving to conditionally support the creation of the fund if acequias are represented on the decision-making board, if preference is given to conservation easements over fee-simple acquisition of working farms and ranches, and if 50% is set aside for conservation easements on working farms and ranches.
2006-16 Climate Change Policy Recommendations
Resolving to support the recommendations of the New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group to promote renewable energy, to promote agricultural practices that increase carbon in soils (such as those consistent with organic production), to reduce the conversion of agricultural and forest land to development, and to enact policies that support local food production.
2006-17 Public Welfare Determination by State Engineer
Resolving to request the State Legislature to clarify in state statutes that the State Engineer is required to make findings on public welfare, impairment, and conservation and that the State Engineer should be deferential to the public welfare statements in regional water plans and those of local governments.