A bipartisan group of 11 South Texas state lawmakers this week sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in which they accused the Mexican government of failing to provide the Rio Grande Valley with water as required under the 1944 Water Treaty.
The state lawmakers blamed Mexico for the recent closure of a Rio Grande Valley sugar mill that employed 500 people.
is the latest attempt to get Mexico to abide by the seven-decade-old agreement, which requires the country to deliver 350,000 acre-feet of water annually every five years. Disputes over the treaty date back years, and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, made a 2023 request for Blinken to intervene.The dispute between Texas and its southern neighbor comes at a time when ever-climbing temperatures threaten water supplies around the globe.
The letter blames Mexico’s failure to abide by the agreement for the closure of the Rio Grande Valley Sugars Growers Inc. sugar mill, which was shuttered in February. The closure, prompted by the facility's lack of access to water, left more than 500 Valley residents without jobs, Texas Public Radio reported.
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