New Mexico Water Use by Categories 2020

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