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“Mexico has committed to make an immediate transfer of water
from international reservoirs and increase the U.S. share of the
flow in six of Mexico’s Rio Grande tributaries through the end
of the current five-year water cycle,” U.S. State Department
spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement.
Bruce thanked Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum for her
involvement in facilitating cross-border cooperation.
The countries’ joint statement Monday, while lacking specific
details of the agreement, said both countries had agreed that
the 1944 treaty regulating how the water is shared was still
beneficial for both countries and not in need of renegotiation.
Under the treaty, Mexico must deliver 1,750,000 acre-feet of
water to the U.S. from six tributaries every five years, or an
average of 350,000 every year. An acre-foot is the amount of
water needed to cover 1 acre of land to a depth of 1 foot.
But Mexico is at a high risk of not meeting that deadline as the
end of the current cycle approaches in October.
The treaty allows Mexico to run a water debt in the first four
years of each cycle, if it can make it up in the fifth.
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