WATER AVAILABILITY IN THE NEW MEXICO_APR 23-24 1981

Authors

• Brian McDonald, University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research
• John Tysseling, University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

4-1981

Abstract

The report reviews the principal legal and institutional factors affecting water management in the basin, including the 1906 Treaty with Mexico, the 1939 Rio Grande Compact, and the 1956 declaration of the Rio Grande Underground Water Basin by the New Mexico State Engineer. Together, these measures limited both surface-water and groundwater development within the basin and constrained the amount of water available to future users.

Recommended Citation

McDonald, Brian, and John Tysseling. Water Availability in the New Mexico Upper Rio Grande Basin to the Year 2000. Paper presented at Anticipating Transboundary Resource Needs and Issues in the Mexico-U.S. Border Region to the Year 2000, South Padre Island, Texas, April 23-24, 1981. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Institute for Applied Research Services, 1981.