where the Rio Grande is replenished through Mexico's Rio Conchos. This pocket of the border is known as La Junta de los Rios, where the two rivers meet and irrigate what's believed to be the ...

WASHINGTON — For almost a century, farmers in Texas and Mexico have maintained a tense but workable compact around the water that flows through the Rio Grande, vital to irrigating crops in a ...

The U.S. and Mexico are experiencing another border dispute, and this one is about water. The conflict stems from an 80-year-old treaty where the countries agreed to share water from the Colorado ...

Mexico and the United States said Monday they had reached an agreement that involves Mexico immediately sending more water from their shared Rio Grande basin to Texas farmers after U.S. President ...

shows that even without accounting for water deliveries owed by Mexico, the two international reservoirs that supply water to the Rio Grande, were receiving less water than they did during the 1980s.

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Agriculture has authorized an executive order allowing farmers to tap the Rio Grande for irrigation. On Thursday, TDOA Commissioner Sid Miller issued the ...

The U.S.-Mexico border is defined in Texas by the Rio Grande, but the government does not install 30-foot-tall steel barriers in the middle of a river, let alone on its looping, unstable banks.

The Elephant Butte Reservoir near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico stores Rio Grande water to be distributed to irrigation districts in Southern New Mexico and far West Texas. Credit: Martha ...

The raging river displaced hundreds of people and destroyed scores of adobe homes. In Mexico, the Rio Grande is known as the Rio Bravo—the rough, or wild, river—signifying the force that ...

The bodies of two people, including a 3-year-old child, were recovered from the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico border this week, as the state comes under fire for dangerous barriers erected in ...

New Mexico Supreme Court over water rights from the Rio Grande. Now a senior judge in the Third Circuit, Smith is serving as a special master to advise the U.S. Supreme Court on what is one of the ...