US, Mexico reach agreement on Rio Grande water deliveries amid drought, shortages
MEXICO CITY - An agreement aimed at ensuring more regular water from Mexico to the United States has been reached, both governments said on Saturday, following a long period of tension over a decades-old treaty.
The neighboring countries have tussled over the 1944 treaty, which was designed to allocate shared water resources. Mexico is required to send 1.75 million acre-feet of water from the Rio Grande to the United States over a five-year cycle, supplying farmers with critical irrigation. Mexico said in its own statement that the measure would provide greater reliability and predictability in water allocations to users in both countries, establish new working groups and improve water quality in the Rio Grande basin.Mexico and the United States will establish working groups to"develop water conservation for the benefit of both countries," the IBWC said.
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