Recently, Mexico began sending more water to the U.S. to uphold its end of a nearly 80-year-old treaty that spells out how two countries share water. But farmers and water experts say the new ...

An 80-year-old water treaty is coming under scrutiny as Mexico falls behind on its water deliveries to U.S. reservoirs along the Rio Grande.

The U.S. and Mexico signed a treaty in 1944 stipulating that Mexico send 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the U.S. every five years from the Rio Grande, and the U.S. send 1.5 million acre-feet ...

Despite the 1944 Water Treaty between the U.S. and Mexico surrounding the Rio Grande, Texas gave farmers the greenlight to tap into the river for irrigation. Skip Navigation.

Further complicating matters, the U.S. and Mexico signed a treaty in 1906 committing the U.S. to providing 60,000 acre feet of Rio Grande water to Mexico at Ciudad Juárez annually.

Data shows Rio Grande water shortage is not just due to Mexico’s lack of water deliveries. ... But Mexico is behind on its deliveries by about 900,000 acre-feet in the current five-year cycle, ...

Thus, in 1938, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado signed the Rio Grande Compact, designating how much water Colorado must ensure would reach New Mexico, which in turn had to ensure a fair share of ...

Your neighborhood: Local news from KOAT Action 7 News Casuga received the letter that highlights the agreement between New Mexico and Texas. Currently, the Rio Grande water flowing into Elephant ...

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.

A persistent hum echoes on the banks of the Río Grande, under the Guadalupe-Tornillo International Bridge. It’s the heavy hauling engines of cargo trucks crossing from Mexico into Texas.

In Mexico, the Rio Grande is known as the Rio Bravo—the rough, or wild, river—signifying the force that caused several devastating floods in El Paso and neighboring Ciudad Juárez. Today these ...

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 ...