SANTA FE – If water were dollars and New Mexico a bank, our checking account would be busted and we’d be dipping dangerously into savings.

That’s how Sam Fernald, director of the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, thinks about the state’s dire water conditions.

“We have a situation where we are dangerously out of balance,” Fernald said Thursday at the state Capitol. “We are starting to tap into our savings account. We have been using our groundwater as a checking account. But because of the drought and the lack of surface water, the groundwater has not been recharging. So now we are tapping into our reserves.”

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