Acequias

meeting lunch on 16th!!!

Notes from meeting on 15th

Statement of Goals

Want to address questions of environmental impact of traditional farming, stability.

• where is it ok to develop? Where should we work on preservation?
• Where are these fundamentally tied to economy and social situation?
• What kind of development is ok for the system?
• "if you develop this in way X rather than way Y, what will the difference be?"

Suggest that we promote maintenance of acequias, prevent division of land, present pressures on the acequia system by suburbanization Want more data to do this well.

Data

We have:

• point data (KML file)
• demographic data (census tracts)
• USGS map data for the area

We want:

• shapefiles
• more census data
• Census: American Community Surveys?

People present

JP, Kim, Ingrid, Anne, Zoe, Rajani, Andreas, Sarah

Photos

(taken, coming to this space soon!)

Research questions

• What is the social, cultural, economic, ecological, political significance of A?
• What are the developments that have an impact on these elements?
• What metrics of these developments do we have?
• Who are the stakeholders in the A?
• What institutional arrangements exist for A?
• What are their relationships, what is their interest, what power do they have?
• What is the geographic distribution of A?
• What geographic features that influence A (gradient, rainfall, wells, temp, ...?)?