I don't know what that has to do with anything, we are interested in our own water, or the communities water, not the state in general in regards to population growth.
Water is problematic; Do you have enough to grow crops? Do you have enough to last through an extended drought and so own. Water in many parts of is neither plentiful or easy to get to. And in a shtf scenario you can even count on the present systems of damns to provide what they do now.
If it wasn’t for the systems of damns and for electricity NM would be far and away more sparsely occupied than it is today.