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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 »Texas Sued New Mexico Over Rio Grande Water. Now The States Are Fighting the Federal Government.
November 4th, 2024
Via Texas Tribune, a report on how – after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the federal government in the long-running water dispute – the states — which had finally worked out a water-sharing agreement — are back to the drawing board: When Judge D. Brooks Smith traveled from Pennsylvania to Colorado, he passed over […]
Read more »Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio Grande
October 25th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the once-mighty Rio Grande river is barely a trickle through much of West Texas. Scientists and advocates say local initiatives could be scaled up to restore flows to the river. The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso. […]
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 »As Rio Grande Runs Dry, South Texas Cities Look To Alternatives For Water
July 25th, 2024
Via The Texas Tribune, a report on how, as the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities are looking to alternatives for water: The Rio Grande is no longer a reliable source of water for South Texas. That’s the sobering conclusion Rio Grande Valley officials are facing as water levels at the international reservoirs that […]
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