This aquifer covering the border between New Mexico and Texas supplies about 5.1 million acres of irrigated land with its 6 billion cubic meters of water pumped per year. As a result of slow recharge due to the low rainfall of the region this aquifer was scheduled to completely dry up by the year 2000. The region supplied by this aquifer produces 12 percent of the countries corn, cotton, wheat, and sorghum supplies, as well as a significant fraction of the feeding lots for our nations cattle.