Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that her country intends to send more water to the United States, but not immediately, even as Donald Trump threatens to raise tariffs by 5% on Mexican imports if more water is not delivered as part of a water-sharing agreement.
Sheinbaum said Mexico is proposing a water delivery this month and another one in the coming years. The proposal will be discussed in a virtual meeting with U.S. officials Tuesday, she said.
Mexico is behind water deliveries to the United States from the Rio Grande River because of drought and pipeline limitations, Sheinbaum said.
The US should just pull itself up by the bootstraps and find its own water rather than waiting for government handouts.
Careful what you wish for. The Water Wars are ever approaching.
the US coming for my freshwater is the only thing that’s ever made me consider getting a gun lol
The US uses up the entirety of the Colorado River. It’s an arid riverbed by the time it reaches the Mexican border. These water treaties need to be overhauled before wars start over them.
Wow, joshlocks6 said a lot of things that I can’t read.
Fun fact: Lemmy’s mod log is public. Here is the log for .world, filtered by that user:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=19175986Huh. Didn’t know that.
Why would you give water to a country that has threatened to invade you in recent months?
Its actually brilliant. Foster a reliance. Make them depend on you.
From a treaty from the 40s. The Trump move would be to ignore the treaty and the “water debt” and demand new compensation for any water, hopefully they get that.
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Why is Mexico giving us water? Are we that hard up? I thought we’d be sending them water.
All of our water is tied up by Nestle. /s
And foreign alfalfa farms.
Microsoft
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I think it’s a fact?
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Some of the US, western states especially, are going to experience some really dangerous water shortages sooner than later.
Which is kind of a disaster of their own making, given the total mismanagement of their watersheds for decades.
Reality is, it’s really the United States who are a third world country…
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Keep trying to put out the dumpster fire that is the US.
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US needs handouts
under a 1944 Treaty
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Don’t give anything to that country of nazis! It’s all for useless data centers anyway.
Damn, we’re so great we can’t even use our own water!
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Acre feet? Anything bit the metric system, eh?
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Nice i didn’t have water wars telly 29 bingo card
Don’t they have scheduled of when a certain city or town gets water? I hear people fill containers because water gets shut off for a couple days.
Two weeks.
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Use the leverage to get Trump to step down
Hahahaha the biggest ass tick since prehistoric times ain’t moving
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