Drilling new water wells is strictly regulated in New Mexico, causing hardship for an oil industry that needs water for fracking.
In many parts of this region, without water for fracking, there is no access to oil.
So they are laying pipes across the state line, pumping groundwater in Texas to serve oil wells in New Mexico.
“Really, the situation happening in southeast New Mexico is out of control, in my opinion,” Dunn said.
Property owners there are selling groundwater to oil exploration companies, which have laid pipelines across the border to serve oil drilling in New Mexico.
The company announced it is building a new 11-mile water supply line capable of moving 150,000 barrels of water per day from Loving County, Texas, across the state line into Eddy County, New Mexico.
Loving County Commissioner Bill Wilkinson said he does not see a problem with all the groundwater exports from his county.
“I care about water in New Mexico.” New Mexico’s state engineer is responsible for managing water rights in the state and issuing permits for new groundwater wells.
As the state land commissioner, Dunn can only influence the groundwater drilling process by regulating access to some 13 million acres of state trust lands.
The groundwater piped into the state from Texas, he said, is subject to the tax because it’s getting pumped from the same aquifer for use in New Mexico.

TEPIC, Mexico, July 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – S upplying clean water and toilets for all could take hundreds of years in countries like Eritrea and Namibia unless governments step up funding to tackle the problem and its harmful effects on health, an international development agency warned on Monday.
WaterAid – which says nearly 850 million people lack clean water – predicted the world will miss a global goal to provide drinking water and adequate sanitation for everyone by 2030.
Meeting it will cost $28 billion per year, the non-profit said.
“We’re really calling for governments to pull up their socks,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from the United Nations in New York.
From July 9-18, governments are reviewing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, which were agreed at the United Nations in 2015, with a focus on six of the 17.
Last week, U.N. officials said barriers to achieving the 2030 water and sanitation targets range from conflict and water pollution to climate change, urging more efficient water use.
Drawing on U.N. data, the UK-based group calculated some countries will need hundreds of years to provide safe drinking water and toilets for all their people, meaning countries collectively are thousands of years off track.
At current rates, Namibians would have to wait until 2246 for everyone to have clean water, while all Eritreans would not get it until 2507 and Nicaraguans not until 2180, WaterAid said.
Governments should fund water and sanitation provision from their own budgets, and work with utilities and private companies to reach people in isolated areas, said Carvalho.
“There’s money around – it’s just not allocated in the right way,” he said, urging international donors to increase spending on water and sanitation.

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS (Mexico) — Ms Maria del Carmen Abadia lives in one of Mexico’s rainiest regions, but she has running water only once every two days.
Potable water is increasingly scarce in San Cristobal de las Casas, a picturesque mountain town in the south-eastern state of Chiapas where some neighborhoods have running water just a few times a week, and many households are forced to buy extra water from tanker trucks.
So, many residents drink Coca-Cola, which is produced by a local bottling plant, can be easier to find than bottled water and is almost as cheap.
"Soft drinks have always been more available than water," said Ms Abadia, 35, a security guard who, like her parents, has struggled with obesity and diabetes.
"Now, you see the kids drinking Coke and not water.
"It doesn’t rain like it used to," said Mr Jesus Carmona, a biochemist at the local Ecosur scientific research centre, which is affiliated with the Mexican government.
"Almost every day, day and night, it used to rain."
Femsa is one of Mexico’s most powerful companies; a former chief executive of Coca-Cola in Mexico, Mr Vicente Fox, was the country’s president from 2000 to 2006.
"Coca-Cola pays this money to the federal government, not the local government," Mebert said, "while the infrastructure that serves the residents of San Cristóbal is literally crumbling."
In San Juan Chamula, bottled soda anchors religious ceremonies cherished by the city’s indigenous Tzotzil population.

Bill Theisen has myopia (Letter to the Editor, The NEWS, June 27).
He misleads the public just as industry does by using a small preliminary study to come to absolute conclusions about fracking and drinking water contamination.
The results of the study are just what we would hope for!
Now there is a baseline against which possible future contamination will be compared, just as the University of Cincinnati study concludes.
The following are links to articles about drinking water contamination caused by horizontal fracking including reference to the federal EPA Drinking Water Study which concluded there can be drinking water contamination caused by fracking.
The UC study in eastern Ohio was not conclusive.
It only examined 22 wells over a short time period with the lead researcher stating that it’s vitally important that “the people of eastern Ohio should have access to regular monitoring so that they know whether well-casing failures or surface spills have occurred and that their drinking water is still safe.
Higher methane content has been linked to well-casing issues and spills in other areas, including the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.” Further questioned about the water-quality study’s results, the UC professor agreed that “it’s an overstatement to say the study found no evidence of ‘drinking water contamination’ since it had a relatively narrow focus.
It wasn’t looking for some types of contaminants.”

WaterAid – which says nearly 850 million people lack clean water — predicted the world will miss a global goal to provide drinking water and adequate sanitation for everyone by 2030.
Meeting it will cost $28 billion per year, the nonprofit said.
"Water, sanitation and hygiene is a global crisis," said Savio Carvalho, WaterAid’s global advocacy director.
From July 9-18, governments are reviewing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, which were agreed at the United Nations in 2015, with a focus on six of the 17.
Last week, U.N. officials said barriers to achieving the 2030 water and sanitation targets range from conflict and water pollution to climate change, urging more efficient water use.
Drawing on U.N. data, the UK-based group calculated some countries will need hundreds of years to provide safe drinking water and toilets for all their people, meaning countries collectively are thousands of years off track.
At current rates, Namibians would have to wait until 2246 for everyone to have clean water, while all Eritreans would not get it until 2507 and Nicaraguans not until 2180, WaterAid said.
It could be 500 years before every Romanian has access to a toilet, and 450 years for Ghanaians, it added.
Governments should fund water and sanitation provision from their own budgets, and work with utilities and private companies to reach people in isolated areas, said Carvalho.
"There’s money around – it’s just not allocated in the right way," he said, urging international donors to increase spending on water and sanitation.

Water is an essential resource for human beings.
In reality, we only have access to 0.0007 percent of the planet’s water, which is all we have to provide for over seven billion people across the world, and the lack of clean water is now an epidemic which affects close to two billion people every year.
Many people have to travel miles just to get a glass of fresh drinking water, and if they are unable to, then they have to make do with what they have, leading to waterborne diseases.
Lack of clean water can have a lot of detrimental effects, with waterborne diseases one of the leading causes of deaths in the world.
Water-related diseases affect more than one-and-a-half billion people each year, resulting in the death of a child every 90 seconds, with diarrhoea being the leading cause of death.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “25 percent to 30 percent of all hospital admissions are linked with waterborne bacterial and bloodsucking conditions, with 60 percent of infant deaths caused by water-borne infections.” Water has even been the cause of international disputes, as evidenced by the conflict between Pakistan and India.
Over 22 million people have no choice but to drink unhygienic dirty water, while more than two in five people don’t have access to decent toilets.
However, former (disqualified) premier of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, did take up the issue of dams with the World Bank but they could not come to a reasonable solution.
He asked WB to “play a ‘lead role’ in resolving the water disputes between Pakistan and India, by establishing a Court of Arbitration, but the international community, as well as the UNDP, holds Pakistan responsible for the dispute” This alone kills over a million people across the globe, every year.
According to a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report, Pakistani authorities have failed to take effective action against this rising threat.

That finding emerged as D.C.Water officials on Saturday significantly shrank the area of the city under a boil water order, reducing the impact to about 20,000 residents in five Northeast Washington neighborhoods — University Heights, Michigan Park, North Michigan Park, Queens Chapel and parts of Brookland.
But even as the boil water order was lifted for most of the city, information from the water utility was scattered, confusing and, in some cases, delayed – stoking anger among residents who complained that officials botched the job of conveying something as vital as the safety of drinking water.
The open valve led to a severe drop in water pressure, which was restored in one hour and six minutes.
A boil water order was issued at 4:30 a.m., first on Twitter, then on a series of robocalls, some of which took up to eight hours to go through.
The robocalls D.C. Water sent were limited to its 34,000 customers in the impact area – but the agency only had 22,000 working telephone numbers, Gadis said.
The system can only handle a certain amount of calls per minute, meaning it took hours to make the calls, limited to people whose names are on the account.
The Environmental Protection Agency recommended D.C. Water make what is called “reverse 911” calls to reach residents before they could use their water on Friday morning.
The communication problem was particularly acute in areas of the District where residents do not speak English.
Wow,” he said, after having learned even filtered water had been deemed unsafe.
“Now that’s a problem.” As in Columbia Heights, the neighborhood Giant and Safeway had both run out of bottled water by Saturday.

Dhaka, July 14 (UNB) – The leading digital service provider of the country, Robi, has inaugurated a pure drinking water plant at Cumilla railway station.
Cumilla City Corporation’s Panel Mayor, Jamiruddin Khan Jampi, Cumilla Upazilla Chairman, Advocate Aminul Islam, Divisional Railway Manager/East, Bangladesh Railway, Chattogram, Md.
Iftakharul Alam along with other high officials from the company were present.
The water plant has separate places for men and women to access pure drinking water.
With technical assistance from Water Aid, water will be purified using Membrane & UV filter.
Furthermore, the regular maintenance of water quality will be ensured at the water plant through periodic testing in the recognized test-laboratories of the country including BUET, CUET, KUET, SUST and PWD.
AKM Bhauddin said, “We are ensuring pure drinking water for the people of Cumilla at the Cumilla Railway Station with a view to meet the corresponding Sustainable Development Goal.
I would like to thank Robi for being part of this national drive through their corporate responsibility initiave.” Speaking on the occasion Robi’s Managing Director and CEO, Mahtab Uddin Ahmed said, “Availability of pure drinking water in public places is a major concern for the travelers in the country.
In order to address this problem, we have started setting up water treatment plants from 2010 with kind support from Bangladesh Railway and Water Aid Bangladesh.” “I can proudly say that this Corporate Responsibility initiative of ours is supporting thousands of commuters of Bangladesh Railway round the clock.
With the inauguration of this facility at Cumilla railway station today, we feel our special relationship with the people of Cumilla has been further bolstered.” Including the water plant at Cumilla railway station, Robi has so far set-up pure drinking water facility in nine major railway stations of the country.

A splitter on the hose allows two people to access water at a time, says resident Jason Cormier, 24.
An order was issued to the city last week to install potable water, more toilets, and hand sanitizing devices.
The city also brought in three more portable toilets to the tent city, at 1 Port Drive.
You know water is essential.” “It has been difficult to provide water for everybody.” Some local businesses have discouraged campers from accessing water to fill drinking bottles but a couple of nearby fast-food outlets have been accommodating, Wendy said.
DisconTent City is among tent cities established on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
It is a busy place, with people coming and going.
Fry has heard that drug dealers have moved onto the property and said the dynamic of the tent city is changing.
New people have set up tents.
They are people that Fry said she doesn’t recognize from Nanaimo’s homeless population.
By the time a rental unit had been advertised for a couple of days, there are already about 60 people ready to take it, making it impossible to find a place, Cormier said.

The big dam and its five sister reservoirs in the Western Cape system not only supply water for drinking but also for farm irrigation.
“But in reality, water resources managers plan for nothing more than 98 percent assurity”—or a 2 percent chance of a water shortfall—“so they’re not planning for anything that’s going to take them out of the normal planning regime, because there are other priorities for spending for local and national government, particularly in a country like South Africa.” A city on edge Three police vehicles pull into a shopping center parking lot in Wynberg, a leafy, middle-class district of Cape Town.
Between October 2017 and May 2018, city workers installed more than 46,170 “water management devices” that throttled the flow of water into homes that used more than 10,500 liters (or about 2,800 gallons) a month.
By the April 2015 meeting, consultants working with the group were projecting a 2022 target for the next supply project.
The question was whether there was appropriate perception that they were needed at this time.” Muller said that the city’s confidence in its demand management sent a clear signal to the national government that it did not need to fast-track a supply project for the Western Cape system.
At the same time, the Department of Water and Sanitation, which operates the Western Cape system, was coming under scrutiny for mismanagement and unjustified spending.
The department also did not enforce water-use restrictions in 2016-2017 from the Western Cape system.
Currently Cape Town recycles only 8 percent of its water.
Residents proved they could get by with only 50 liters per day.
We all pulled together to get through the crisis, to make sure our dams do not run empty.