Eligible entities include:
- counties, cities, towns, or villages;
- a drainage, conservancy, irrigation, soil and water conservation, water, or sanitation district
- a mutual domestic water consumers association; a public water cooperative association; a community ditch association
- a public post-secondary educational institution
- the state of New Mexico or any of its branches, agencies, departments, boards, instrumentalities or institutions
- any other political subdivision of the state; or a federally recognized Indian nation, tribe or pueblo, the boundaries of which are located wholly or partially in New Mexico