New Mexico Environment Department

Strategic Water Supply

The New Mexico Strategic Water Supply is an innovative solution to the drastic water-related threats facing our state. Part of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s 50-Year Water Action Plan, this initiative will use an advanced market mechanism to purchase $500,000 worth of produced water from private companies. This produced water will be prioritized for industrial uses, saving our groundwater and other freshwater for drinking, cooking and everything else we use it for in our daily lives.

Learn more at https://www.env.nm.gov/strategic-water-supply/