• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    “Mexico’s continued shortfalls in its water deliveries under the 1944 water-sharing treaty are decimating American agriculture —particularly farmers in the Rio Grande valley,” the department announced on the social platform X, via its Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

    I… What? Mexico doesn’t deliver water to the US, they’re downstream. We have a treaty with them to leave so much water in the Colorado by the time it reaches the border. I guess they’re just making shit up?

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      Based solely on my reading of the article, Tijuana needs water so they get it via treaty from the Colorado river in the USA. Texas and probably other areas need water so Mexico provides it, under the same treaty, from the Rio Grande. That’s just my guess based on the article but there is a link to a PDF of the actual treaty in there if you want to read it.