President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that the country will deliver water “as far as you can” to the United States, as part of the agreement that reached Monday to fulfill and resolve the controversy over the 1944 waters.
“A review was made by the technical areas of how much water is available in the dams to be able to know it. And then, we are going to say it, the amount of water is delivered as far as you can,” said the president during her morning press conference.
When questioned about the agreement announced on Monday after the warning of sanctions of the US President, Donald Trump, the ruler said that her work is to first guarantee “the human right” and irrigation in the agricultural areas of the country.
He explained that the agreement was achieved after recent rains in Tamaulipas, border with Texas, which guaranteed that it did not have to deliver so much water from international dams.
“Then a water delivery was agreed within the possible and viable margins, an annual meeting to review,” he emphasized.
He also said that his government is working on an efficient irrigation process in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora and a part of Coahuila, all border with the United States, which in the future will help reduce the amount of water used and thus the 1944 treaty can be met.
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He reiterated that, if Mexico had not been able to comply with the delivery of water that establishes the treaty, it was due to drought, so a calculation of how much water there is in the dams and how much it could be delivered without putting the country at risk.
“Then, we all agreed and in that sense, there were several weeks of work to find a scheme that can give water to the United States that we should, but that does not put us at risk. Then, what can be and how far you can, as I would say (Benito) Juárez (former president of Mexico),” he said.
The 1944 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, while Mexicans stay with 9,250 million cubic meters, almost four times more.
The Government of Mexico, which argued that the drought at the border prevented him from delivering the liquid, argues that the United States has agreed that the 1944 treaty offers benefits for both countries, “so its renegotiation is not considered necessary.”
With EFE information
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