According to this treaty, the United States is required to deliver 1 1/2 million acre feet, or just under 500,000 gallons of water from the Colorado river to Mexico each year. Similarly, Mexico is obligated to deliver 1.75 million acre feet to the United States from the Rio Grande river every five years. And while the United States has dutifully held up its end of the bargain, Mexico has been delinquent on repeated occasions. Now Mexico is hundreds of thousands of acre feet behind in their required water deliveries. (00:40–00:49)
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Asserts Mexico's water delivery obligation to the U.S. under the 1944 Water Treaty.
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