Agreement does not include liquid stored in dams; impossible for Chihuahua to deliver it

Andrea Becerril

La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, April 13, 2025, p. 5

Faced with the requirement of Donald Trump so that Mexico complies with the 1944 Water Treaty, it must be remembered that this agreement stipulates that the liquid considered to pay does not include the stored in the dams, which are also at its lowest level and cannot be delivered to the United States, because there would be a direct affectation to thousands of producers, the senator Mario Vázquez Robles warned.

We cannot fulfill a treaty at the expense of the social instability of our people, Mexico must protect its producers and establish support programs to the northern communitiesinsisted the PAN legislator.

In an interview, he said that recurring droughts do little less than impossible for Chihuahua to deliver water to the United States. Mexico can and must fulfill its international commitments, but without sacrificing the water viability of its population or yielding to pressures. Please of our people’s sovereignty and

Vázquez Robles insisted: The treaty must be respected in its terms, and not deform by external interests. The defense of water is today, more than ever, a defense of sovereignty and our people.

Due to the droughts that have hit that entity in recent years and the little water in the dams such as the nozzle, the barn and the virgins belong to the producers, indigenous communities and cities.

It is not that Chihuahua does not want to contribute or do not want to meet the agreement, or Of course, the 1944 Water Treaty is beneficial for Mexico, but the only injured party is Chihuahua, because the liquid that arrives in the northwest, from the United States, goes to Baja California and then to Sonora.

However, he stressed, The water that Mexico delivers to the United States is that of Chihuahua.

The Chihuahuan senator raised the need for federal government officials, as well as the International Commission of Limits and Water and the states involved feel to dialogue at work tables and verify that in reality in Chihuahua there is no water to deliver.

He also stated that it must be legislated to protect dams as a national priority infrastructure, as well as establishing protection schemes to rural producers and communities in the northern states, in defense of the human right to water, of the national interest and the principle of water sovereignty.