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.

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.

The Public Water Suppliers (PWS) geospatial shapefiles are a dataset of non-transient PWS locations, their associated service areas, and the locations of their supply sources. This is a geospatial coverage of the approximate boundaries of public water systems in New Mexico.

This site serves as a data integration and discovery platform for the New Mexico Water Data Initiative (NMWDI). NMWDI is a collaborative effort to improve the availability and accessibility of water data in New Mexico.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

This layer depicts the Regional Water Planning regions for the NM Office of the State Engineer and Interstate Stream Commission. It also incluces the Surface Water Basins for the State of New Mexico.

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

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

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 dataset downloaded from the USGS for water use in New Mexico. Data are from the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer.

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

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.

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 interactive map displays wells that are actively monitored with one or more timeseries groundwater level datasets.

Online data dictionary - related to Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), developed in 2005. Data from NMED related to drinking water and public water systems are stored in SDWIS.