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's top water negotiator wrote to federal water managers and laid legal issues with its plan for managing the Colorado River. -
The Grand Canyon National Park implemented increased water restrictions this week. Most of the changes involve two campgrounds on the South Rim. -
Cities around the Phoenix area are reducing their take on the Colorado River and leaving water in Lake Mead. Millions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act are helping ease the pain. -
The project to clean up sediment and soil in the Rio Sonora comes more than a decade after what Mexico considers the worst environmental mining disaster in its history. Some say the government and Grupo México could have done more and demand transparency. -
A new study says the tiny alpine streams that feed rivers like the Colorado are seeing less groundwater-fed streamflow. That could have a cascading effect.
