This Minute of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) aims at ensuring more regular water deliveries from Mexico to the United States. It provides Mexico with tools and flexibility to deliver water earlier in the five-year cycle under the 1944 U.S.-Mexico water treaty and will allow Mexico to use the tools at any time to reduce or prevent shortfalls in water deliveries to the United States, subject to prior U.S. agreement. Under the 1944 U.S.-Mexico water treaty, Mexico delivers water to the United States in the Rio Grande in cycles of five years, for a minimum annual average of 350,000 acre-feet except in the event of extraordinary drought or serious accident to its water infrastructure. Mexico shall evaluate the possibility of allocating volumes for the fulfillment of its obligations under the Treaty with waters stored in said dams in the following cases: • When there is a deficiency from a previous cycle; or • To reduce or avoid a potential deficiency when the deliveries from Mexico are below the minimum annual average established in the Treaty in an ongoing five-year cycle. The Minute also requires some working groups to be established within the IBWC.
المكسيك, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية · 2024-11-09