It's All About Water - Films & Conversation

Friday, February 10, 2012 5:00 PM - Saturday, February 11, 2012 5:00 PM
South Broadway Cultural Center - 1025 Broadway Blvd SE

Two days of films and discussion regarding water issues in New Mexico. This is a free event sponsored by New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Amigos Bravos, Sierra Club, and Food & Water Watch.

Friday: What are the impacts of oil, gas and uranium development on our water, air and health?
4:45 p.m. Doors Open/Environmental Groups Exhibits
5:20 p.m. Welcome and Overview of Evening
5:30 p.m. Film: Natural Gas from Shales: Some Myths and Realities
6:10 p.m. Film: Split Estate (mineral rights and hydraulic fracking)
7:30 p.m. Panel – Issues of oil, gas, tar sands and uranium extraction

Panelists:

Gwen Lachelt, Oil and Gas Accountability Project
Debra Anderson, Producer, “Split Estate”
Kathleen Dudley/Don Hamilton, Drilling Mora County
Darlene Gomez, Attorney, raised on a ranch with a “split estate”
Nadine Padilla, Coordinator, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment

8:30 p.m. Film: Tipping Point (the truth about Canadian Tar Sands)

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Saturday: Can New Mexico’s water support its population, farming and industrial needs?
9:00 a.m. Doors Open/Environmental Group Exhibits
9:20 a.m. Welcome and Overview of Day
9:30 a.m. Film: Liquid Assets (municipal water systems)
10:15 a.m. Panel – Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Water Infrastructure

Panelists:

Kathy Verhage, Albuquerque Stormwater Management
David Price, Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority
Bruce Thomson, Director of UNM Water Resources Program
Paul Robinson, Southwest Research and Information Center

11:30 a.m. Film: American Southwest: are we running dry?
12 p.m. Panel – Water Rights, Acequias, the Rio Grande and Climate Change

Panelists:

James Maestas, South Valley Regional Association of Acequias
Steve Harris, Rio Grande Restoration
Elaine Hebard, Independent Water Policy Expert
Dave Gutzler, UNM Earth and Planetary Science

1:15 p.m. Working Bag Lunch (bring your own): What can we do? Discussion and planning
2:30 p.m.   Film: Water for the World Act of 2011
2:40 p.m.   Film: Tapped (bottled water industry and privatization of water)
4:00 p.m.   Film: Blue Gold (international water issues and efforts to address problems)

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Note: Please, NO commercial bottled water. Bring water in a sustainable container. Light refreshments will be provided.

** Check www.cabq.gov/sbcc for schedule/panelists updates.**
Contact: Christy Martinez, crmartinez@cabq.gov , 505-848-1320

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