President Donald Trump accused Mexico on Monday of violating a 1944 treaty by withholding water owed to Texas farmers, threatening to impose an additional 5% tariff if the nation doesn’t immediately comply.
Under the U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty, Mexico must send 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the U.S. from the Rio Grande River through a network of dams and reservoirs every five years.
But Trump wrote on Truth Social that Mexico “owes” the U.S. 800,000 acre-feet because of treaty violations during the past five years.
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