Mexico owes Texas a certain number of water every five years but says it can’t deliver in a drought.
A view of Falcon Dam downstream from Falcon International Reservoir in February. Falcon Reservoir is currently at about 8.8% full.
“Mexico owes the U.S. 1.7 million acre-feet of water every five years or so, and ideally, that would be broken up into equal increments of 350,000 acre-feet per year,” Arévalo said. “But consistently, Mexico has fallen behind and waited until the last minute to make good on those deliveries, which has left a lot of our local farmers here in the Rio Grande Valley in the lurch.
At this point, the Texas delegation in Congress – including lawmakers from both parties – is discussing withholding aid. Arévalo said water is a bipartisan issue because it is so essential.
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