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‘Enormous’ Profits From Avocado Exports Drive Water Shortages In Mexico
September 12th, 2024
Via PBS, an interview examining the impact that Mexico’s avocado exports are having upon the nation’s water supply: Demand in the United States for one popular food is driving deforestation in Mexico. Daniel Wilkinson, senior policy adviser at Climate Rights International, joins Stephanie Sy to discuss the environmental and human costs of skyrocketing avocado sales […]
Read more »Aquifers Along the Border
August 21st, 2024
Via Texas Water Resources Institute, a look at groundwater aquifers shared between the U.S. and Mexico: When it comes to shared surface water, the United States and Mexico are lawfully obligated to abide by binational treaties and the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC). But what about governance of the groundwater that both countries have access to, […]
Read more »Colorado River Delta Showing Signs of Life After U.S.-Mexico Deal To Restore Water
August 16th, 2024
Via Science, a report on how a water sharing agreement with the United States has aided restoration of Mexico’s Colorado River delta: A decade-old effort to restore the once parched Colorado River delta in northwestern Mexico appears to be succeeding. Since the United States and Mexico agreed to restore some water to the delta in […]
Read more »Water Treaty Between Mexico and U.S. Faces Biggest Test in 80 Years
August 16th, 2024
Via NPR, a report on 1944 Mexico/U.S. water treaty: Eighty years ago, the United States and Mexico worked out an arrangement to share water from the two major rivers that run through both countries: the Rio Grande and the Colorado. The treaty was created when water wasn’t as scarce as it is now. Water from […]
Read more »South Texas Leaders Push To Meet Incoming Mexican President Over Water Debt ‘Crisis’
July 18th, 2024
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 »As Drought Parches Mexico, A Yaqui Water Defender Fights for A Sacred River
July 10th, 2024
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 […]
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