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Mexico’s Water Crisis Could Undermine Its Clean Energy Plans
July 24th, 2025
Via Oil Price.com, a report on how Mexico’s water crisis could undermine its clean energy plans: Mexico plans a major solar power expansion to boost energy independence and cut carbon emissions. Northern Mexico’s chronic water shortages pose a serious threat to these energy ambitions. The water-energy nexus highlights the need for integrated resource governance to […]
Read more »The Deepening Water Shortage Fight Between the US and Mexico
July 15th, 2025
Via BBC, a report on the deepening water shortage row between the US and Mexico: After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention. On the shores of Lake Toronto, the reservoir behind the state’s most important […]
Read more »Drought: Draining Water Supplies and Driving Up Food Costs Where You’d Least Expect
July 10th, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how – from Mexico City to the Mekong Delta – increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems and economies everywhere: Taking shovels and buckets to a dried-up sandy belt of the Vhombozi River in Zimbabwe last August, groups of Mudzi district villagers gathered to dig […]
Read more »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, […]
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