Mexico and the United States have agreed to a plan for Mexico to deliver the water it owes to Texas under a 1944 treaty.
The U.S. State Department and Department of Agriculture said in a joint statement Tuesday that Mexico will deliver a minimum of 350,000 acre-feet of water per year to Texas, which is the amount it owes annually under the water-sharing agreement.
Mexico has been behind on its deliveries of water after years of drought, delivering only about half of the water it owes Texas from the Rio Grande during a five year cycle that ended in October.
In exchange for water from the Rio Grande, the United States promises water deliveries from the Colorado River to Mexico under the treaty.
The new agreement on a technical plan to facilitate the water sharing agreement comes shortly after a phone call between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly threatened Mexico with tariffs over the water it owes the United States.
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Arizona and the six other states that use the Colorado River do not have a new plan to share the shrinking water supply. -
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