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Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers as US Treaty Threat Grows
April 12th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on how Mexico’s failure to keep up 81-year-old water-sharing treaty has sparked a diplomatic spat with the US: Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, […]
Read more »Trump’s Denial of Mexico’s Colorado River Request Sparks Concerns Over Future Water Negotiations
April 5th, 2025
Via The Hill, an article on the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico: The Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico is raising alarm among experts, who fear it could jeopardize future cross-border negotiations in an increasingly thirsty region. The refusal, which marked the first such rejection in […]
Read more »Texas Farmers Struggle As U.S. Denies Mexico’s Water Request Over Treaty Shortfalls
March 28th, 2025
Via High Plains Public Radio, a report on struggling Texas farmers as the U.S. denies Mexico’s water request over treaty shortfalls: The United States denied Mexico’s request for a special delivery of Colorado River water on Thursday, citing Mexico’s ongoing failure to meet its obligations under an 80-year-old water-sharing treaty between the two countries. Facing […]
Read more »The Last Drops of Mexico City
March 26th, 2025
One of the world’s largest and most populated cities may run out of drinking water in the near future. As Mexico’s capital struggles to quench its thirst, Longlead provides scenes from the parched megalopolis showing how water scarcity could one day impact cities around the globe. Every day, for most of her life, Norma, a 68-year-old woman […]
Read more »Water: The Other US-Mexico Border Crisis That Is Growing Worse
February 7th, 2025
Via The Conversation, a report on growing water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico: Immigration and border security will be the likely focus of U.S.-Mexico relations under the new Trump administration. But there also is a growing water crisis along the U.S.–Mexico border that affects tens of millions of people on both sides, and it can only […]
Read more »U.S. Border Agency Seeks Solutions With Mexico on Water, Sewage Problems
January 7th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a report on the International Boundary and Water Commission has the unglamorous job of stopping sewage flows and negotiating water disputes on the U.S.-Mexico border: From one end of the U.S.-Mexico border to the other, water and wastewater infrastructure are perennial problems. In the Rio Grande Valley, farmers are running out […]
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