Texas delegation urges Congress to withhold aid to Mexico over water treaty dispute

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A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers are demanding appropriators withhold funds for the country until Mexico lives up to its end of a 1944 water treaty that requires it to send 1.75 million acre-feet to the U.S. every five years.

The Rio Grande at Los Ebanos in Hidalgo Co. on Jan. 14, 2022. The United States is on the right, Mexico on the left., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.WASHINGTON — Texans in Congress are threatening federal funds for Mexico , escalating a dispute over Mexico ’s obligations to deliver water to the United States.

They continued: “As efforts at negotiating a reasonable compromise between our countries have failed to produce an amenable solution for our constituents, we urge you and your colleagues on the Appropriations Committee to withhold designated funds from Mexico until Mexico has agreed to provide more reliable and consistent water deliveries to the United States.”

Texans on the border have been highlighting the water treaty in Congress and with the White House for months.

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