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Trump Threatens Mexico With Tariffs Over Water
December 9th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how drought has dried up Mexico’s water supply, much to the chagrin of Texas farmers—and Trump: Decades of tension between the United States and Mexico over shared water resources turned into an actual water-cum-trade war overnight. In a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump made good on earlier […]
Read more »Overconsumption Gravely Threatens Water Security in the Binational Rio Grande-Bravo Basin
December 8th, 2025
Via Springer Nature, a new study reporting that overconsumption gravely threatens water security in the binational Rio Grande-Bravo basin: The Rio Grande-Bravo basin shared by the United States and Mexico is experiencing a severe water crisis demanding urgent attention. In recent decades, water storage reservoirs, aquifers, and annual streamflow volumes have been substantially depleted, leaving […]
Read more »Trouble Brewing: Maya People in Yucatán Fear New Heineken Plant’s Thirst for Water
October 10th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a look at how Indigenous groups in Mexico opposed to a planned brewery say families already have little access to water – and that their way of life is also under threat: On a summer evening in southern Mexico, a percussion group using water bottles as instruments leads a procession through Mérida, capital […]
Read more »The Rio Grande’s Pecan Problem
September 9th, 2025
Via High Country News, commentary on how Big Ag is threatening New Mexico’s water supply: Green is not the color one expects to see in the cactus-and-yucca-dotted Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico. But for more than a hundred miles along the I-25 corridor, between Truth or Consequences and the Texas border, a rich vein […]
Read more »Mexico Will Not Meet Its Water Treaty Commitments To U.S. By October
September 3rd, 2025
Via TRT Global, a report on why Mexico will not meet its water treaty commitments to the US by October 24: It’s a deadline that is difficult to meet, and only an act of God could help Mexico. By October 24 this year, the North American country is required to share approximately 1 billion cubic […]
Read more »Water Wars: A Historic Agreement Between Mexico and US is Ramping up Border Tension
July 31st, 2025
Via The Conversation, a look at how a historic water sharing agreement between Mexico and US is ramping up border tension: As climate change drives rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, Mexico and the US are in the middle of a conflict over water, putting an additional strain on their relationship. Partly due to constant droughts, Mexico […]
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