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The Water Resource Under Otero Mesa
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N.M., Texas Bidding For Share of Aquifer
Water Beneath Otero Mesa - The Facts Say It All:
This document shows how we have calculated that there is enough
fresh water to supply 1 million people for over 100 years, based on
average household water use in Albuquerque and also by looking
at
average use in Santa Fe and Las Cruces. Read
It!
Letter to the Editor from Hydrologist Steven Finch:
This letter discusses the 15 million acre-feet of recoverable fresh
ground water beneath Otero Mesa as "very significant for the
water-poor
State of New Mexico." Read
It!
Groundwater Supply Beneath Otero Mesa:
This factsheet provides an estimate of the supply based on USGS
estimates of daily consumption for all uses (household, agricultural,
industrial, etc.), State and Regional Water Plans, and the water
considered part of "present and potentail future use" by the State
of
New Mexico. Read
It!