Mexico: Potential Drought Crisis In Coming Months
February 26th, 2013
Via OOSKA News, an article on Mexico’s water crisis: Mexico could face a crisis due to drought and lack of water supply in the next few months, a Mexican legislator warned last week. Kamel Athié Flores, president of the Potable Water and Sanitation Committee for Mexico’s Congress of the Union (Mexico’s legislative branch), said the [...]
Read more »Landmark U.S. Water Pact With Mexico Could Boost Lake Mead
November 11th, 2012
Via the Las Vegas Review Journal, a report on a recent agreement over Colorado River flows: After years of negotiations, the United States and Mexico have struck a deal that could keep more water in Lake Mead and help improve water efficiency and the environment south of the border. The landmark five-year agreement would allow [...]
Read more »U.S. / Mexico: Tempers Boil Over Border Water Battle
April 21st, 2012
Via The San Antonio Express, a report on recent tension between the US and Mexico over the Rio Grande: State officials are taking a stand against the binational International Boundary and Water Commissionover the release of Rio Grande water to Mexico. They say the water payments will cause substantial losses to U.S. crops and run [...]
Read more »Mexico’s Newest Export to US: Water?
October 17th, 2011
Via Yahoo! News, a report that Mexico may export water to the U.S. if two large desalination plants are developed in the years ahead: “…Mexico ships televisions, cars, sugar and medical equipment to the United States. Soon, it may be sending water north. Western states are looking south of the border for water to fill [...]
Read more »Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Environmental Security
September 29th, 2009
Via Aquadoc, news that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is publishing a series on the hydropolitical vulnerability and resilence of international water resources on all the inhabited continents. As the article notes: “… a nation is hydropolitically vulnerable if there is the potential for conflict to arise with another nation(s) over a particular international [...]
Read more »Nevada: Don’t Drink The Water In Mexico…
August 9th, 2009
Via The Las Vegas Review Journal, an interesting article suggesting that Nevada may look towards Mexico if various water conservation & desalination efforts in that country take off. As the article notes: “…Talks are progressing among officials from both sides of the border over new joint efforts to squeeze more water out of the arid [...]
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