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Mexico Makes Water Payment To U.S. After Trump's Sanctions Threat, But Still Far From Total

Water being released at the International Amistad Dam (Credit: Oscar Villalba/Image via myrgv.com)

Mexico made the first payment of water owed to the United States under a 80-year-old treaty, but the amount is still far from the total owed to its northern neighbor.

According to Border Report, the Claudia Sheinbaum administration sent a total of 56,750 acre feet of water through a "transfer of ownership in Amistad Dam" on April 30, meaning that the country gave part of the water that was listed as its own in the reservoir.

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