Texas Lawmakers Demand Accountability: Enforce Mexico’s Water Treaty Obligations in Trade Talks

For years, hardworking Texas farmers and ranchers in the Rio Grande Valley have borne the brunt of Mexico’s repeated failure to uphold its commitments under the 1944 water treaty — a pact critical not only for agriculture but for U.S. sovereignty along our southern border. Why Has Mexico’s Persistent Water Debt Become America’s Problem? The treaty requires Mexico to deliver nearly two million acre-feet of water every five years from its tributaries to South Texas — yet as of the latest deadline, it owes an alarming deficit approaching one million acre-feet. This chronic shortfall threatens more than just crops; it...