Mexico City, (EFE) .- Mexico promised to meet the Water Treaty with the United States, dating from 1944, but warned of the problems existing by the drought that the north of the country is experiencing, said the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Julio Berdegué, after holding a call with his American counterpart, Brooke Rollins.
The official explained, in a message on the social network X, that he held a phone call with Rollins and with the Undersecretary of State Chris Landau “in which we ratify the 1944 treaty and Mexico’s commitment to fulfill it, under the drought considerations that we have had in recent years.”
In addition, he shared that they dialogue about water deliveries by 2025, as well as the irrigation technification program in several districts of Baja California, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas, border with the United States.
“We will continue working together for the benefit of both countries,” Berdegué said.
This Friday, in her daily conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum promised the “immediate delivery” of water to the state of Texas after the claims of President Donald Trump, who warned on Thursday of sanctions to Mexico for “violating” the Binational Water Treaty.
“To Texas farmers, who are those who are asking for water, there will be an immediate delivery of a certain number of millions of cubic meters that can be given, according to the availability of water that exists in the (river) Bravo,” he said.
Sheinbaum ruled out this Friday that there will be a conflict or a renegotiation of the Water Treaty, after Trump warned of reprisals against Mexico for the more than 1.6 billion cubic meters of water that owes Texas.
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“I don’t believe it (there are sanctions), as we know, it is also the way to communicate from President Trump, but there is a work table and (also) to strengthen communication,” he said.
The Water Treaty establishes that Mexico must deliver each five -year period about 2,160 million cubic meters to the United States for the rivers that share on the border, although Mexicans receive almost four times more: 9,250 million cubic meters.
The tension increased after a pronouncement of Texan legislators in March, when they urged Trump to include in tariff negotiations with Mexico an additional pressure to comply with the border distribution of the liquid, to name losses of about 993 million dollars annually in southern Texas.
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Sheinbaum said that Mexico has fulfilled the agreement as far as possible before the drought in the region, so the International Commission of Limits and Water “is looking for technical proposals that allow this treaty to be fulfilled.”
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