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Immigrants not the Only Thing Crossing U.S. – Mexico Border
10:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico · Comments Off
5 Dec 2006
The latest war brewing at the U.S. – Mexico border isn’t about undocumented immigrants, it’s about water.
Bush administration lawyers are urging a federal appeals court to allow a section of a canal separating California and Mexico to be lined with cement to stop millions of gallons of water from seeping south of the border each year.
The water in question is seeping through the All-American Canal that delivers Colorado River water to crop land on both sides of the border. Under a 1944 U.S. treaty, Mexico is entitled to 489 billion gallons of Colorado River water, but not a drop more.
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