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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 […]
Read more »Texas Water Rights Clash With Mexico
November 28th, 2024
Via The Pinnacle Gazette, a report on growing water tension between Texas and Mexico, with Governor Abbott pushing for compliance of treaty obligations amid worsening drought conditions: Texas officials are raising alarms about water rights issues with Mexico, following recent agreements intended to manage the distribution of water to the Rio Grande Valley. Governor Greg Abbott […]
Read more »Mexico Offering Water To South Texas. But With A Catch
November 11th, 2024
Via Grist, a look at Mexico’s offer of water to South Texas, but there’s a catch farmers aren’t happy about: Rio Grande Valley farmers who have seen their industry devastated by insufficient rain and depleting water reserves have been offered up a modest but helpful amount of water for their dried-up land. The farmers are […]
Read more »Is A Global Industrial Hub Responsible For The Destruction of Mexico’s Atoyac River?
November 6th, 2024
Via The Guardian, a look at how pollution from a cluster of foreign factories in Mexico is contributing to a threat to public health: On the outskirts of Puebla in central Mexico sits an area on the Atoyac River known as Nueva Alemania, or “New Germany”. Between two factories, under-construction houses pepper streets with names such as Frankfurt, […]
Read more »How Mexico City Averted All-Out Drought
October 17th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a look at how – with just-in-time rain and a looming presidential election – Mexico City never reached ‘Day Zero.’ But the politicized threat helped propel water infrastructure as a priority policy issue. As severe drought parched the Valley of Mexico earlier this year, news outlets began a countdown to a total failure […]
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