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A water war is brewing between the U.S. and Mexico. (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A water dispute between the United States and Mexico that goes back decades is turning increasingly urgent in Texas communities that rely on the Rio Grande. Their leaders are now demanding the Mexican government either share water or face cuts in U.S. aid.

In a deepening diplomatic conflict, Mexico is behind in obligations under an 80-year-old treaty that governs cross-border flows of the drought-stricken Colorado River. It has for decades resisted water deliveries to the United States from its reservoirs in the Rio Grande basin as it faces its own drought pressures on thirsty and valuable crops bound for sale across the border.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wonder how many Texas golf courses are fed by the Rio grande basin?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Genocide golf courses.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck, the water wars are already here.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right on time, sadly. Now, I wonder how the republicans(and liberals) will frame their propaganda to manufacture consent for a future political clash with Mexico. There are no doubts that this shit is going to heat up.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"What? No water? How dare you!?!?"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

After seeing western empire news repeatedly call the genocide they're doing to the Palestinian people a "war", I'm getting to the point I just assume that if they call something a war, they are talking about something they or one of their proxies is being violent about and they are both sidesing it to make it sound less bad.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The treaty requires that the United States send 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water each year, and that Mexico send 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the United States every five years on the Rio Grande.

With a deal like that, US can prbly est shit.

For all I know, Mexico is like

Because it is my {river}! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! - How may I live without my {resources}? I have given you my {labor}; leave me my {river}!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

1.75 million acre-feet of water

American units are so silly. "Yes, I'd like a foot of water, please."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It’s terrible. Small volumes are teaspoons and tablespoons, then in ounces (rarely disambiguated from the same word being used for small weights as “fluid ounces”) then we have cups, pints, quarts (quarter of a gallon), gallons. Then we get crazy and start with cubes, cubic feet, yards (usually not referred to as cubic yards, but they are) and then acre-feet. I’m fine with distances and weights in freedom units, but I yearn for metric when it comes to volumes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Luckily this can't escalate too far. The REAL cool zone moment will be if India and Pakistan get into disputes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

The more normalised violent international disputes become, the more likely they are to actively be aggressive towards one another though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

They stole Texas from Mexico, and now they want their water too?