Another day, another announcement about federal stimulus money flowing into New Mexico.

On Wednesday, the news was that 22 drinking water and wastewater projects will get $27.5 million in funding from the massive federal spending program. Communities from Farmington and Raton to Doña Ana and Ruidoso are slated to receive the money.

But let's say you wanted to know about one of the other hundreds of projects being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. How would you find the information? Who is keeping track and how much transparency is there?

Several groups and Web sites aim to help.

While there doesn't seem to be one master list for every New Mexico project online, the state's Office of Recovery and Reinvestment has a Web site, www.recovery.state.nm.us/, that breaks down spending by policy area and county. It also has general information on applying for and attending meetings about stimulus money.

There is a federal version of this site at www.recovery.gov.

Information on city of Santa Fe projects can be found at www.santafenm.gov/index.aspx?NID=1771, while a county presentation on the funding is posted at www.co.santa-fe.nm.us/about_us/economic_recovery.php.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman's office has a map you can use to see where projects across the state have been funded. It's at http://bingaman.senate.gov/policy/arranmmap.cfm. Users can click on small houses, police officers and other icons to learn about the types of projects being funded.

Apart from government sites, others exist to watchdog, critique and comment on the funding.

The site http://stimuluswatch.org/ has information on projects that is updated every 10 minutes. It's also got a handy keyword search. Users can click on a local project and vote on whether the project is critical.

At www.shovelwatch.org/, users can adopt and watchdog projects in their area. The site also has a blog with news and critiques about projects around the country.

If you want to know about how other states are spending their recovery money, check out www.propublica.org/special/chart-tracking-states-spending-trackers.

It won't just be up to watchdog groups to keep tabs on the stimulus spending. There will be federal and state audits of the money that will be posted on the state's recovery site.

Former Gov. Toney Anaya, head of the New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment, said the oversight will be sweeping.

"The federal oversight is going to be pretty extensive, and we keep reminding state agencies and local governments that that's the case," he said.

Eventually, his office plans to have as many as three inspectors general to audit and ensure compliance with spending regulations, he said this week.

Contact Kate Nash at 986-3036 or knash@sfnewmexican.com.