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Trump Forces Mexico to Share More Water Along the Rio Grande
May 29th, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how President’s stern hydro diplomacy is criticized as temporary and damaging: Mexico’s announcement late last month that it would send water to the United States to meet its treaty requirement to meet the needs of residents in the Rio Grande Valley was seen by President Claudia Sheinbaum as a step […]
Read more »U.S and Mexico Must Collaborate to Manage Water Supply Amid Climate Change
May 15th, 2025
Via the Times of San Diego, commentary on the need for the U.S and Mexico to collaborate to manage water supply amid climate change: The water treaty between Mexico and the United States has been in place since 1944. It has been a fundamental pillar in the shared management of transboundary water resources. However, the realities of […]
Read more »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 […]
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