Governor demands action on Mexico’s water treaty violation

Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality have demanded Mexico address its failure to meet the minimum requirements to deliver water to the United States under a 1944 water treaty.

“Mexico must be held accountable for (its) continued breaches of our long-standing water agreement,” Abbott said. “Because of their pattern of neglect, Texas farmers are enduring preventable hardship and an erosion of the agricultural viability of the Rio Grande Valley.”

Abbott said Mexico has failed to supply more than two years’ worth of water — almost 2 million acre-feet. He said that has had a severe negative impact on the state’s agricultural industry.