US withholding water from Mexico to address debt, official says

US withholding water from Mexico to address debt, official says

MERCEDES, Texas (Border Report) -- The United States is holding back water payments to Mexico in order to send a message, the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commissioner told Border Report. Teacher-turned-drug lord ‘La Tuta’ fighting extradition to US "The first action that the State Department has done is in denying water deliveries to Mexico in the Tijuana area," U.S. IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner told Border Report last wee…

Once-Dying Mexican River Delta Slowly Nursed Back To Life

It is the fruit of two decades of work by environmentalists along the lower part of the river from the US-Mexican border to the upper estuary of the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez.

Once-dying Mexican river delta slowly nursed back to life

In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life.

Just as it is happening with other binational cooperation agreements, those related to transboundary waters between Mexico and the United States are being clouded after the arrival of Donald Trump’s new government. The tycoon and his entourage are bringing the policy of “America First” to the scope of the 1944 Water Treaty and this is aggravating the problems caused by the drought in Mexico. A few weeks ago, Texas senators asked Trump to pressur…

Once-dying Mexican River Delta Slowly Nursed Back To Life

In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life.