• PROTEST: Hundreds of farmers in the northern state of Chihuahua protested Tuesday against the Mexican Government push to open the floodgates of the Boquillas Dam to comply with water deliveries to the US, under the 1944 border water treaty between both countries.
• RESPONSE: North of the town of Camargo (pop. 51,000), farmers protested at the Boquillas Dam against a 23,000 acres feet water delivery from the Conchos River, a tributary of the Rio Grande River. Troops from the Mexican National Guard were deployed to the area.
• OPPOSITION: “I expressed to the President (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) my concern about this unilateral decision … to seek to open the dams. I asked him to review the decision since the same goal can be achieved without opening the dams”, said Javier Corral, Governor of Chihuahua.
• TEXAS: For years, Texas authorities have accused the Mexican Government of failing to comply with the Rio Grande River water deliveries established in the 1944 treaty (350,000 acre-feet minimum annual average) allegedly putting in danger irrigation on the US side of the border.
