The United States and Mexico have come to an agreement after a dispute over water deliveries that Mexico owes the United States.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Mexico plans to deliver more than 200,000 acre-feet of water to the United States starting this week.
The deal comes after President Donald Trump threatened Mexico with a 5% tariff if it doesn’t release the water it owes the U.S. under a 1944 treaty.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says the deliveries won’t affect everyday Mexicans’ taps.
“We aren’t giving water that we don’t have,” Sheinbaum told reporters Monday.
Mexico owes the United States around 800,000 acre-feet of water for a five-year period that ended in October. Mexico says extraordinary drought conditions made it impossible to deliver that amount of water in that time frame and has deferred its balance to a second five-year cycle.
The USDA says Mexico and the United States aim to come to a final plan for the outstanding deliveries by the end of January.
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