Water From Mexico?

The first paragraph

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President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs, and possibly sanctions against Mexico, if it continues to rob South Texas farmers of Rio Grande water promised under a decades-old treaty.

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Eta from googles

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The U.S. agreed to deliver a specific amount of water from the Colorado River to Mexico annually, and in return, Mexico agreed to deliver a specific amount of water to the U.S. from the Rio Grande over a five-year cycle.

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It is a treaty from 1944 to water share with Mexico, we give them water in Tijiuana, they give us water in Southern Texas... goes on 5yr cycles.

Biden let it slide, which sucked for Texas... Trump is handling it by cutting off Tijiuana.

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Under the treaty designed to allocate shared water resources, Mexico is required to send 1.75 million acre-feet of water from the Rio Grande to the U.S. over a five-year cycle.

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Water From Mexico?

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Go to Google Earth and zoom in to the two reservoirs I have pinned below and you will see the tributaries that flow into them from Mexico. Mexico controls those tributaries.

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They arent talking about the impact he’s had to California farmers by forcing them to relax water policy post wildfires.

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The “ Putting People over Fish” memorandum was pretty popular with farmers. I assume you meant a good impact?

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It is a treaty from 1944 to water share with Mexico, we give them water in Tijiuana, they give us water in Southern Texas... goes on 5yr cycles.

Biden let it slide, which sucked for Texas... Trump is handling it by cutting off Tijiuana.

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Tijauna is no where near Texas. Tijauna gets water primarily from the Colorado River, IIRC.

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Tijauna is no where near Texas. Tijauna gets water primarily from the Colorado River, IIRC.

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Bruh

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The U.S. agreed to deliver a specific amount of water from the Colorado River to Mexico annually, and in return, Mexico agreed to deliver a specific amount of water to the U.S. from the Rio Grande over a five-year cycle.

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The dire wolf thing is interesting here. Tell the lefties that they'll save the genes for the endangered thing they are worried about and it can be brought back if whatever they are using it to hold up extincts them. Win win.

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Bruh

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I didn't read that post.

As an engineer my initial reaction was to look at the physics of the problem and not the legal agreement.

When someone ask: "How does this work?", my initial thought is nature, not manmade legalese.

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The “ Putting People over Fish” memorandum was pretty popular with farmers. I assume you meant a good impact?

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The Central Valley is the closest we have in America to the garden of Eden.

It’s 1% of our arable land yet produces 50% of our fruits and 25% of our nuts.

But even an area as fertile as the valley needs water and at least for now Trump has unlocked it from a productivity standpoint.

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Why would Mexico short our supply under the treaty? In a recent interview on Fox Business, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins explained that they are expanding agriculture on their side of the border and are simply keeping the water for themselves.

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This is exactly what they are doing. You can't run that much of a deficit and not be using that water somewhere.