Our Publications

Publications from our research team.

Khedun, C.P., Sanchez, R., Rughoonundun, H., Kaiser, R.A. (2025). World water supply and use: Challenges for the future. Food Science.
Arciniega-Esparza, S., Hernández-Espriú, J. A., Salinas-Calleros, G., Birkel, C., Sanchez, R. (2025). Assessing hydrological drought propagation through assimilation of GRACE for groundwater storage anomalies modelling in northeastern Mexico. Journal of Hydrology.
Ebrahimi, S., Khorram, M., Sanchez, R., et al. (2025). 30 Years of simultaneous crop & land cover land use maps for Middle Rio Grande from 1994 to 2024. Scientific Data.
Sanchez, R., Mumme, S., Eckstein, G. (2025). The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis. Water International.
Sanchez, R., Kikoyo, D., Yang, L. (2024). Effective transboundary aquifer areas between Mexico and the United States: A border-wide approach. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.
Mumme, S., Megdal, S.B., Sanchez, R., Brause, H., Salmón, R., Tapia-Villaseñor, E., Ibáñez, O., de la Parra, C., Cruz Ayala, M.B. (2023). Crafting Binational Groundwater Agreements: Preconditions for Progress Along the Mexico-U.S. Boundary. Water Economics and Policy.
Lara-Valencia, F., Coronada, I., Mumme, S., Brown, C., Ganster, P., Garcia-Perez,H., Lybecker, D., Megdal, S., Sanchez, R., Sweedler, A., Varady, R. & Zuniga-Teran, A. (2023). Water Management on the U.S-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross Border Cooperation. Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Loodin, N., Eckstein, G., Singh, P., Sanchez, R., (2023). Assessment of the Trust Crisis between Upstream and Downstream States of the Helmand River Basin (1973-2022): A Half Century of Optimism or Cynicism? ACS ES&T Water.
Sanchez, R., & Rodriguez, L. (2022). Transboundary Aquifers between Mexico and the United States: The Complete MAP. Transboundary Aquifers.
Rivera, A., Pétré, MA., Fraser, C., Petersen-Pearlman, J., Sanchez, R., Movilla, L., Pietersen, K., (2022). Why do we need to care about transboundary aquifers and how do we solve their issues? Hydrogeology Journal.
Coronado, I., Lara-Valencia, F., Mumme, S., (2022). Water management on the U.S.-Mexico border: Achieving water sustainability and resilience through cross border cooperation. White paper, United States International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC), 22 p.
Sanchez, R., Breña-Naranjo, J. A., Rivera, A., Hanson, R. T., Hernández-Espriú, A., Hogeboom, R. J., Milman, A., Benavides, J.A., Pedrozo-Acuña, A., Soriano-Monzalvo, J.C., Megdal, S.B., Eckstein, G. & Rodriguez, L. (2021). Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands. Water International, 1-20.
Talchabhadel, R.; McMillan, H.; Palmate, S.S.; Sanchez, R.; Sheng, Z.; Kumar, S. (2021). Current Status and Future Directions in Modeling a Transboundary Aquifer: A Case Study of Hueco Bolson. Water.
Sanchez, R., Rodriguez, L. (2021). Transboundary Aquifers between Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, and California, Arizona and New Mexico, United States: Identification and Categorization. Water.
Rodriguez, L., Sanchez, R. (2021). Drought assessment using remote sensing in the Allende-Piedras Negras Transboundary Aquifer. Visiones contemporaneas de la cooperacion y la gestion del agua en la frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
Sanchez, R., & Tracy, J. (2020). Introduction: Featured Collection on Transboundary Aquifers. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Rodriguez, L., Sanchez, R., Zhan, H., Knappett, P. S. (2020). The Transboundary Nature of the Allende–Piedras Negras Aquifer Using a Numerical Model Approach. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Sanchez, R., & Eckstein, G. (2020). Groundwater management in the borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The beauty of the unknown, the negligence of the present, and the way forward. Water Resources Research.
Sanchez, R., Rodriguez, L., Tortajada, C. (2020). Effective Transboundary Aquifer Areas: An Approach for Transboundary Groundwater Management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Sanchez, R., & Eckstein, G. (2020). The path towards groundwater management in the borderlands of Mexico and Texas. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water.
Foster, J., (2018). Survey of legal mechanisms relating to groundwater along the Texas-Mexico border. Texas A&M University School of Law.
Sanchez, R. (2018). Transboundariness or the end of aquifer boundaries as we know them. AWRA IMPACT.
Sanchez, R. (2018). Book review: The International Law of Transboundary Groundwater Resources. Texas Water Journal.
Sanchez, R., Rodriguez, L., & Tortajada, C. (2018). Transboundary aquifers between Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Texas, USA: Identification and categorization. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.
Sanchez, R., Rodriguez, L., & Tortajada, C. (2018). The transboundariness approach and prioritization of transboundary aquifers between Mexico and Texas. Ambio, 1-11.
Smith, W. B., Miller, G. R., & Sheng, Z. (2017). Assessing aquifer storage and recovery feasibility in the Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.
Sanchez, R., & Rodriguez, L. (2017). Transboundary aquifers between Mexico and the US: Identification, classification and Priorization. XVI World Water Congress.
Sanchez, R. (2017). Transboundary aquifers between Mexico and the US: Management perspectives and its transboundary nature. XVI World Water Congress.
Sanchez, R., & Eckstein, G. (2017). Aquifers Shared Between Mexico and the United States: Management Perspectives and Their Transboundary Nature. Groundwater, 55(4), 495-505.
Sanchez, R., Lopez, V., & Eckstein, G. (2016). Identifying and characterizing transboundary aquifers along the Mexico–US border: An initial assessment. Journal of Hydrology, 535, 101-119.
Sheng, Z., & Liu, Y. (2015). Evapotranspiration of flood-irrigated pecans under drought conditions in El Paso, TX. 37-44.
Buono, R. M., & Eckstein, G. (2014). Minute 319: a cooperative approach to Mexico–US hydro-relations on the Colorado River. Water International, 39(3), 263-276.
Eckstein, G. E. (2012). Rethinking transboundary ground water resources management: A local approach along the Mexico-US border. Geo. Int’l Envtl. L. Rev., 25, 95.
Gastélum, J., Sheng, Z., & Michelsen, A. (2012). Understanding surface water and groundwater interactions in the Mesilla Basin. 171-180.
The Journal of the International Relations and Affairs Group (2011).
Brown, W. A., Cegon, A. B., & Sheng, Z. (2011). Utilizing continuous resistivity profiling for characterization of canal seepage in El Paso, Texas. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophyics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, SAGEEP. 169-178.
Eckstein, G. E. (2011). Buried Treasure or Buried Hope-The Status of Mexico-US Transboundary Aquifers under International Law. Int’l Comm. L. Rev., 13, 273.
Sheng, Z., Michelsen, A., Liu, Y., Creel, B., McGuckin, T., & Lacewell, R. (2010). Statistical analysis of flow exchange and salt loading between the Rio Grande and underlying aquifers. 1002-1011.
Sheng, Z., Fahy, M. P., & Devere, J. (2004). Management strategies for the Hueco Bolson in the El Paso, Texas, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Region.
Reinert, S., Sheng, Z., & Fahy, M. P. (2004). Synopsis of the El Paso-Las Cruces Regional Sustainable Water Project.
Sheng, Z., Aristizabal, L. S., & Wanyan, Y. (2004). Well spacing and its impacts on surface water flow in El Paso Lower Valley. 341-346.
Sheng, Z., King, J. P., Aristizabal, L. S., & Davis, J. (2003). Assessment of Water Conservation by Lining Canals in the Paso Del Norte Region The Franklin Canal Case Study. 2295-2301.
Sheng, Z., Michelsen, A., Fahy, M. P., & Ashworth, J. (2003). Conflicts and Cooperation: Water Resources Planning in Far West Texas. 2337-2346.