Water Science & Education Center SubCluster
NMSU has successfully conducted significant basic and applied research to solve water problems in New Mexico and the Paso del Norte region. The Water Science & Education Center SubCluster recently conducted a state-wide survey of more than 2,000 water entities and found the top issues in New Mexico for future water research, teaching, and service to include:
- Improve existing supply enhancing technologies
- Assess levels of vulnerability of New Mexico aquifers
- Examine cost-effective methods to promote water conservation
- Improve water use efficiency and increase economic returns for water used
- Increase safety of wastewater treated for use as drinking water
- Promote conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater
- Develop better measures for reducing water pollution
- Understand what influences water use by agriculture, municipal, industrial, and environmental users
- Understand effects of land use changes on water pollution
Steering Committee:
- Karl Wood, Director, Water Resources Research Institute (575)646-4337 (kwood@wrri.nmsu.edu)
- Frank Ward - Agricultural Economics & Business (575)646-1220 (fward@nmsu.edu)
- James Peach - Economics & Int'l Business (575)646-3113 (jpeach@nmsu.edu)
- Abbas Ghassemi - Institute for Energy and Environment (575)646-2357 (aghassem@nmsu.edu)
- Jacob Urquidi - Physics (575)646-5199 (jurquidi@nmsu.edu)
- Susan Brown - Educational Research Center (575)646-1397 (susanbro@nmsu.edu)
- Hugo Vilchis - Health Science (575) 646-3057 (hvilchis@nmsu.edu)