The Trump administration and Mexican officials reached an agreement to ensure that Texas farmers obtain very necessary water from the Rio Grande, less than a month after President Donald Trump accused the neighbor south of stealing the water farmers promised under a decades treaty.
The United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, announced on Monday that the agreement had been reached with Mexico to meet the current water needs of Texas farmers and ranchers as agreed under the 1944 water treaty.
According to the last agreement, Mexico promised to send water from international reservoirs and increase the US flow. Uu. Of six tributaries from Rio Grande from Mexico until the end of the current five -year water cycle, which ends in October.
“Mexico finally satisfies the water needs of Texas farmers and ranchers under the 1944 water treaty is a great victory for American agriculture,” Rollins said. “After weeks of negotiations with Mexican cabinet officials together with the Undersecretary of State Christopher Landau, we ensure an agreement to give Texas producers the water they need to prosper.”
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Rollins described the measure in a significant step forward, noting that the Trump administration welcomes Mexico's continuous operation in support of US agriculture.
Under the 1944 Water Treaty, Mexico agreed to deliver 1.75 million acres-pie for five years to the United States from the Rio Grande. In return, the United States agreed to deliver 1.5 million water acres to Mexico from the Colorado River.
But sometimes, Mexico falls short with its delivery to the United States, and has led to a serious shortage of water in the Rio Grande Valley for farmers and ranchers, killing crops and jobs while threatening the local economy.
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The agreement occurs weeks after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexico, possibly even sanctions, if he continued to rob the farmers of Rio Grande del Sur of Texas, as promised under the treaty.
“This is very unfair, and is harming the farmers in southern Texas a lot,” the president wrote in a publication about Truth Social on April 10. “Last year, the only sugar factory in closed Texas, because Mexico has stolen the water from Texas farmers. Ted Cruz leading the fight to obtain southern Texas, the water that owes him, but slept, Joe has raised Levhing to UPH to the help of help.
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Trump continued, saying that he will ensure that Mexico does not violate treaties with the United States and hurt farmers in Texas.
“Last month, I stopped water shipments to Tijuana until Mexico complies with the 1944 water treaty,” he wrote. “My secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, is defending Texas farmers, and we will continue increasing consequences, including rates and, perhaps even sanctions, until Mexico honors the treaty, and gives Texas the water that is owed!”
Texas agricultural groups warned about a disastrous season ahead of them for citrus and sugar last year, since Mexican and American officials tried to solve a dispute over the 1944 treaty that provides farmers with critical irrigation.
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The two countries have fought for the treaty before, but the shortage of water driven by drought was the most severe in almost 30 years.
