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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.

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Why is Mexico giving us water? Are we that hard up? I thought we’d be sending them water.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (4 children)

All of our water is tied up by Nestle. ~/s~

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 8 points 1 week ago

And foreign alfalfa farms.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reality is, it’s really the United States who are a third world country…

[–] Norin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keep trying to put out the dumpster fire that is the US.

[–] webp@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

US needs handouts

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

under a 1944 Treaty

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why would you give water to a country that has threatened to invade you in recent months?

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Its actually brilliant. Foster a reliance. Make them depend on you.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn, we're so great we can't even use our own water!

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US should just pull itself up by the bootstraps and find its own water rather than waiting for government handouts.

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Careful what you wish for. The Water Wars are ever approaching.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

the US coming for my freshwater is the only thing that's ever made me consider getting a gun lol

[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Acre feet? Anything bit the metric system, eh?

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Use the leverage to get Trump to step down

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hahahaha the biggest ass tick since prehistoric times ain't moving

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, joshlocks6 said a lot of things that I can't read.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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=19175986

Huh. Didn't know that.

Nice i didn't have water wars telly 29 bingo card

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't give anything that country of nazis! It's all for useless data centers anyway.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.