US refuses water request for Mexico in new battleline

The State Department said it was the first time that the United States has rejected a request by Mexico for special delivery of water, which would have gone to the border city of Tijuana. "Mexico's continued shortfalls in its water deliveries under the 1944 water-sharing treaty are decimating American agriculture-- particularly farmers in the Rio Grande valley," the State Department's bureau handling Latin America said in a post on X. The 1944 treaty, which governs water allocation from the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers...