**Abstract**

The water crisis is global, and it is manifested in groundwater stored in aquifers; also, the climate crisis is worsening it. In this context, there is an ongoing paradigm shift in water management where complexity of water problems is being addressed. For that matter, there are several interdisciplinary approximations and modeling techniques available in the literature. Integrated Water Resources Management for the achievement of water security can be modeled using system dynamics. Dynamic modeling is multidisciplinary, cross-scalar, flexible, modular, adaptable, and allows stakeholders to be involved, therefore, it is appealing to IWRM and groundwater management. In the latter case, aquifers are usually modeled in a broader scale of a watershed and their interrelationships with human activities and climate change have been modeled successfully. In the future, there are opportunities for these modeling approach, which are joining different water subsystems, including water systems in broader human systems, and combining system dynamics with other techniques that can increase its suitability for decision making. System dynamics modeling is useful to inform public policies and projects that can address the groundwater crisis, especially in countries where the impacts are already evident, like Mexico.

**Keywords:** system dynamics, water management, groundwater, water security, water crisis, aquifer
