Commentary: Getting tough on water treaty

Commentary: Getting tough on water treaty

The Rio Grande Valley is home to farmers and ranchers who supply the nation’s grocery stores and represent billions of dollars in economic activity.

Texas farmers struggle as Mexico and U.S. wrestle with water from the Rio Grande treaty

Recently, Mexico began sending more water to the U.S. to uphold its end of a nearly 80-year-old treaty that spells out how two countries share water. But farmers and water experts say the new agreement won't be enough.(Image credit: Carlos Morales.)

Possible settlement reached in long-running Rio Grande dispute

Mule deer pick their way through the Rio Grande at below Percha Dam at Caballo Reservoir in May 28, 2022. On Monday, parties in the long-running dispute over Rio Grande water said there is a possible resolution in the 12-year-old Supreme Court case.(Diana Cervantes for Source NM)Parties in a 12-year-old legal fight over Rio Grande water on Monday told the federal judge supervising the case for the U.S. Supreme Court that a potential settlement h…

Who Will Stand Up for the Rio Grande?

In an aerial view, the Rio Grande is shown between Del Rio, Texas and Ciudad Acuna, Mexico on January 26, 2023. (Photo credit Brandon Bell via Getty Images)Subscribe nowIn August 2022, Democrats in Congress rallied around a vote for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), despite opposition from a hard line of Republican nays. The IRA aimed to fulfill the promise of the stalled “Build Back Better” legislation introduced in 2021 and championed by form…

CDMX.- In just seven days, Mexico gave the United States 90 million cubic meters of water from tributaries of the Rio Bravo. The volume contributed between April 26 and May 3 is equivalent to almost the total of 2024, of 92 million cubic meters. Mexico seeks to comply with the five-year quota of liquid that corresponds to it according to the bilateral treaty of 1944, although its deadline is next October 24th. After President Donald Trump imagin…