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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 […]
Read more »Every Drop Counts In America’s River Crisis
July 2nd, 2024
Via National Geographic, a look at the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, two of the most threatened rivers in the U.S.: Our nation’s most vital waterways are drying up at an alarming rate due to global warming, increased human water use, and other man-made impacts. Nowhere is this crisis seen as dramatically than in the […]
Read more »Conflict Flowing Down River: The Water War Between U.S. and Mexico
June 27th, 2024
Via The Week, an article on rising water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico: The U.S. and Mexico are experiencing another border dispute, and this one is about water. The conflict stems from an 80-year-old treaty where the countries agreed to share water from the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. However, because water is […]
Read more »A Water War Looms Between Mexico and the U.S. Neither Side Will Win.
June 17th, 2024
Via CNN, a look at the looming water war between Mexico and the U.S.: Tensions are rising in a border dispute between the United States and Mexico. But this conflict is not about migration; it’s about water. Under an 80-year-old treaty, the United States and Mexico share waters from the Colorado River and the Rio […]
Read more »The Decline of the Rio Grande
June 15th, 2024
Via The New Yorker, an article on the decline of the Rio Grande: The smell that comes from a sugar mill operating at full capacity is malty and industrial, something like fermented molasses. “Normal people don’t like it, but, for us, it’s the smell of a sugar mill running. So I love that smell,” Cain […]
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