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Via InformNY, a report on efforts by South Texas leaders to meet with the incoming Mexican president over water debt ‘crisis’: Lawmakers from the Rio Grande Valley are vying to meet with Mexico’s incoming president over water owed to the United States. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, this week wrote to Mexican President-Elect […]
Read more »Via Mongabay, an article on a Yaqui water defender fighting for a sacred river in Mexico: On Sept. 11, 2014, Mario Luna Romero was arrested by state judicial police in Obregón, a city on the periphery of his tribe’s territory in Sonora, and transported to a maximum-security prison. They accused him of being involved in […]
Read more »Via National Geographic, a look at the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, two of the most threatened rivers in the U.S.: Our nation’s most vital waterways are drying up at an alarming rate due to global warming, increased human water use, and other man-made impacts. Nowhere is this crisis seen as dramatically than in the […]
Read more »Via The Week, an article on rising water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico: The U.S. and Mexico are experiencing another border dispute, and this one is about water. The conflict stems from an 80-year-old treaty where the countries agreed to share water from the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. However, because water is […]
Read more »Via CNN, a look at the looming water war between Mexico and the U.S.: Tensions are rising in a border dispute between the United States and Mexico. But this conflict is not about migration; it’s about water. Under an 80-year-old treaty, the United States and Mexico share waters from the Colorado River and the Rio […]
Read more »Via Modern Farmer, a report on how more than 22 million people in Mexico City could face a complete water shortage this month, and millions more around the country deal with frequent droughts and water shortages. This article examines whether it time to rethink our relationship with water? It was mid-February, and in Oaxaca City, […]
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