This service currently delivers three datasets via RESTful APIs which draw data from the New Mexico Environment Department's SDWIS/State database:

• Drinking Water Watch (DWW) samples
• Drinking Water Watch (DWW) violations
• Federal Reporting System (FedRep) facilities

USGS Real Time Water Data for New Mexico includes streamflow, groundwater, lake and reservoir, precipitation, and water quality data. Real-time data typically are recorded at 15-60 minute intervals, stored onsite, and then transmitted to USGS offices every 1 to 4 hours, depending on the data relay technique used.

The New Mexico Produced Water Reuse data portal was developed through an agreement between the New Mexico Produced Water Research Consortium and the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) in support of the New Mexico Water Data Initiative. The WaterSTAR product of the GWPC was used as the basis of the data portal. The data sources used in the development of the data portal are provided by the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division (OCD) and the Petroleum Recovery Research Center: A Division of New Mexico Tech.

USGS data and tools are the digital information in a format suitable for direct input to software that can analyze its meaning in the scientific, engineering, or business context for which the data were collected.

This is a dataset downloaded from the USGS for water use in New Mexico in 2015. data are from the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer.

This is a point coverage of dams in the New Mexico, which originally was derived from the national inventory of dams data base (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1982). The coverage includes locations of and selected characteristics of approximately 2,700 reservoirs and controlled natural lakes that have normal capacities of at least 5,000 acre-feet or maximum capacities of at least 25,000 acre-feet and that were completed as of January 1, 1988.

These layers comprise active and inactive permits for public water utilities.

New Mexico Water Use by Categories, developed in 2015 by the Office of the State Engineer. These data represent estimates of water used in various sectors in New Mexico, provided here in several formats.

This is a subset of the the DW_Sources layer from the Drinking Water Bureau used by the Surface Water Quality Bureau.

Currently, users can either view this data directly in a web browser, though this can be confusing to users who do not understand the SensorThings API (https://newmexicowaterdata.org/faq/#sensorthingsapi) structure. Users who have some programming knowledge can also query this data with the Python programming language following this tutorial (https://developer.newmexicowaterdata.org/help). Development is currently underway for applications that more easily allow general users to query and visualize this data.

The Office of the State Engineer Declared Groundwater Basin map layer closely follow the legal desciptions. However, these boundaries are approximations. For a more accurate description please refer to Article 7 of the "Rules and Regulations Governing the Appropriation and Use of Ground Water in New Mexico." A Declared Groundwater Basin is an area declared by the State Engineer to be underlain by a groundwater source with reasonably defined boundaries. By declaration the State Engineer assumes jurisdiction over the appropriation and use of groundwater from that source.

These are impaired streams and lakes for the 2024 reporting cycle to the EPA under the Clean Water Act Section 303(d).

NMED is mapping areas where waters of the state may be vulnerable to contamination from septic tank discharges, and where stricter standards may be imposed. Aquifer sensitivity maps prepared for NMED by Lee Wilson and Associates in 1989 have been digitized and are a data layer in the online Liquid Waste Geographic Information System (GIS). The tab for GIS data layers is near the upper right corner, the buttons for zoom in/out and other functions are on the left, aquifer sensitivity maps are under Geology/Landcover. The Lee Wilson maps are being updated and modified to include current depth-to-ground-water information, as well as areas of karst and fractured bedrock, known contamination sites, and gaining streams. These maps also can be downloaded as bitmap and gif files (Table 1). The maps contain color-coded groundwater areas based on depth to water and naturally occurring, background, total dissolved solids (TDS) as explained in Table 2. Areas with ground water less than 100 feet deep, and with 2000 mg/L or less TDS, are mapped in red. Other areas of concern based on karst or fractured bedrock, known ground-water contamination, and gaining streams impacted by septic tank effluent, are also being mapped.

Access to adequate supplies of fresh water is becoming an increasingly critical issue in many parts of the world. In arid regions of the southwestern United States, diminishing water supplies and extended periods of drought have generated an interest in non-traditional water resources, and the development of new technologies such as desalination of brackish water to exploit those resources. New Mexico has limited supplies of fresh water, but over the last century there have been claims that the state has very large reserves of brackish groundwater (e.g., Hood and Kister, 1962; McLean, 1970). However, our knowledge of the quality and volume of these brackish water resources varies significantly across the state. Some aquifers and groundwater basins in more densely populated areas have been very thoroughly investigated by multiple individuals and agencies over time periods of years or decades. Despite this foundation of pre-existing research, our knowledge of the distribution of brackish groundwater in many aquifers in New Mexico is often poorly constrained.

OSE Glossary developed during WRATS taxonomy. This glossary helps users understand key terms like "beneficial use," "prior appropriation," and "surface water."

These two shapefiles represent New Mexico NHD High Resolution stream segments and waterbodies, merged and clipped to the state boundary. RAW NHD High Resolution data, including additional layer files, is available from: https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/

The New Mexico Water Use by Categories report (Report) is prepared once every five years by the Water Use and Conservation Bureau of the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. The purpose of the Report is to provide the public with comprehensive and useful water use data. The Report contains statewide water use data for the 2020 calendar year. Water withdrawals in New Mexico counties and river basins were tabulated for nine water use categories. Categories labeled “Self-Supplied” include water users who withdrew water directly from a groundwater or surface water source for individual use, but not water users who received their water from a public water supplier.

1. Public Water Supply

2. Self-Supplied Domestic

3. Irrigated Agriculture

4. Self-Supplied Livestock

5. Self-Supplied Commercial

6. Self-Supplied Industrial

7. Self-Supplied Mining

8. Self-Supplied Power

9. Reservoir Evaporation

Each water use category is defined in the chapters of this Report. The general procedures used to quantify withdrawals are presented in a step-by-step format.

New Mexico Water Use by Categories 2020 by Valdez, Julie; Harms, Paul, P.E.; Nelson, Matt; and Gagnon, Arianna, New Mexico Office of the State Engineer, Technical Report 56, November 2024

The Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), the only research center of its kind in New Mexico, is a scientific research organization dedicated to solving problems related to the oil and gas industry.

Transducer recorded and hand-measured water-level data (active record)

Locations: Osita Ranch: about 9 miles NW of Clines Corner, New Mexico E-8428: About 5 miles north of Tajique, NM Smith-1: About 3 miles north-northeast of Mountainair, NM E-10652: About 5 miles east-northeast of Mountainair, NM E-7545: About 3 miles east of Manzano, NM Magnum Steel: about 2 miles west-northwest of Moriarty, NM T-6363: 16 miles southeast of Mountainair, NM E-1639: between Progresso and Cedarvale, New Mexico