Albuquerque Bernalillo County
Water Utility Authority (ABCWUA)

http://www.abcwua.org/

The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority is a joint agency of the City of Albuquerque and the County of Bernalillo that administers the water and wastewater utility for all of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. The Authority was created on June 21, 2003 by New Mexico Senate Bill 887 (Laws 2003, Chapter 437, codified as NMSA 1978, Section 72-1-10).

Our relationship: As a contractor, we are part of the youth water resource education outreach program. This includes developing water resource education curricula, website teacher materials and evaluation tools as well as conducting in-class water resource education to grades K-12 public, private and home school students. In addition, we market and coordinate corresponding student field trips to the new water treatment plant to teach students about the drinking water project.

http://wrri.nmsu.edu/wrdis/nmwca/alliance.html

The NMWCA is a non-profit organization of people dedicated to water conservation issues. Individuals from municipal, industrial, institutional, and commercial sectors have joined together in an effort to exchange information, provide education, and work collaboratively to help ensure a positive water future for the state.

Our relationship: Our children’s water festivals are projects of the NMWCA, a 501c3 organization that also serves as our fiscal agent. As project manager for these festivals, we oversee planning, fundraising, event logistics, public relations, marketing, event support, evaluation and reporting. Steering committees provide guidance and resources to help us carry out these functions.

Key Planning Organizations

We work closely with the following festival steering committee organizations which provide guidance and resources:

Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority

City of Rio Rancho, Water Conservation Office

City of Rio Rancho, Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful

New Mexico Office of the State Engineer

New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau

New Mexico Environment Department, Drinking Water Project

Bernalillo County Environmental Health Department

NMSU/Bernalillo County Cooperative Extension, 4-H

CH2MHill/OMI

Waste Management of New Mexico, Inc.

Key Sponsor Organizations

Each and every year, funding for the children’s water festivals must be raised. The following organizations contributed $1,000 or more in 2006-2007 to support one, two or all three festivals. For a complete list, visit our children’s water festival website at www.waterfestnm.com: