Consuelo (Conci) Bokum
Conci
has served
as President of the Board of
Directors of the New Mexico Water Dialogue since 1991, and since August
2006 as interim Executive
Director. She is the director for
the New Mexico Water Project, 1000 Friends of New Mexico. She has been
working on
water policy issues since 1991 when
she and two others co-authored Living Within Our Means: A Water Management Policy
for New Mexico in the 21st Century. She subsequently researched and wrote Implementing the Public Welfare Requirement
in New Mexico's Water Code, published in the University of New Mexico School of Law's Natural Resources Journal.
In 2002, she, Alletta Belin, and Frank Titus co-authored Taking Charge of our Water Destiny: A Water Management
Policy for New Mexico in the 21st Century.
Conci is chair of the Jemez y Sangre Regional Water Planning Council, a
member
of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Water
Task Force, and the public member of the Buckman Direct Diversion
Project Board. In
1993 she served on the New Mexico
Interstate Stream Commission's committee that developed the Regional Water Planning
Handbook.