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<br />,;1 <br /> <br />Addressing the Basin's Problems <br /> <br />;:.J <br /> <br />. Develop mechanisms for cooperative activities. <br /> <br />. Foster community-based decision-making to address local needs. <br /> <br />. Promote action-oriented efforts focusing on sustainable development. <br /> <br />-:,: <br /> <br />. Develop inter-disciplinary approaches to environmental problems. <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />. Create opportunities for basinwide exchange of information and <br />technology. <br /> <br />.J <br /> <br />;~. <br /> <br />. Develop projects that specifically address human health issues. <br /> <br />~ <br />;!? <br /> <br />-..;! <br /> <br />At the coordinating meeting, participants pledged to work together to begin <br />building information banks related to environmental data in the Basin. <br />Stakeholders throughout the Basin are currently developing a representative <br />Coordinating Council for the Alliance. Participants of the El Paso meeting <br />and other interested parties have tentatively agreed to gather in <br />Albuquerque in April 1997 for a second meeting of the Alliance. Some <br />observers believe interest in the Alliance diminishes the further one is from <br />Texas and the TNRCC. <br /> <br />4. Regional Water Planning in New Mexico <br /> <br />~:' <br /> <br />h <br /> <br />New Mexico embarked on intrastate, regional water planning following a <br />1987 federal court decision in the El Paso-New Mexico litigation finding the <br />state's prohibition against out-of-state transfer of groundwater was an <br />unconstitutional violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the <br />Constitution. The Supreme Court, in a separate case, ruled that a state <br />could not single out interstate transfers for regulation but identified the <br />conditions a state must meet to justify restrictions on transfers, whether <br />between basins within the state or out of state, to protect public health and <br />welfare. The development of regional plans was seen as a necessary step for <br />determining when and where these conditions would be satisfied. <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />The legislature directed that regional planning should occur at the initiation <br />oflocal interests, who define the relevant region through their hydrological <br />and political common interests. At first, the regions took different <br />approaches, to the extent that the different plans were too inconsistent to <br />satisfy the state's legal and planning objectives. Hence, in 1994, the state <br /> <br />117 <br /> <br />(: ,~ n C U 8 <br />'., '..,' &.v...; <br />