The San Juan Water Commission, through a Joint Powers Agreement was created on March 5, 1986, to protect the use of future and existing water rights and water resources of its member entities. The San Juan Water Commission's member entities include the City of Aztec, City of Bloomfield, City of Farmington, San Juan County, and San Juan County Rural Water Users Association, all of which receive their municipal and industrial water from surface water supplies.
Over 60% of New Mexico surface waters are San Juan River flows. The Colorado River Compact (1922) divided the water between the upper and lower Colorado River Basin states. Later, the upper Colorado Basin states divided the upper basin share, New Mexico received 11.25% of the annual upper basin water.

Today, approximately 400,000 acre-feet are beneficially applied in New Mexico out of the San Juan Basin, from an estimated
total of 670,000 acre feet available. The 110,000 acre-feet transbasin Rio Grande diversion via the San Juan/Chama Tunnel
system and the New Mexico portion of the Animas La-Plata Project. READ MORE

Mission Statement: To protect the use of future and existing water rights and water resources of the member entities
of the San Juan Water Commission.