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‘With What Water?’ - The shrinking of a mighty Mexican river has hollowed out the economy of Chihuahua’s Conchos Valley and bred civil unrest as South Texas demands the water it’s owed. (www.texasobserver.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

A similar situation is happening with the Colorado River:

https://youtu.be/d3Lt58tTYFk

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

The dirty little secret here is that Sourh Texas is causing the shortage.

Far and away the biggest waste of water in the region is the government-subsidized South Texas rice farming industry.

Just like virtually everything else in the current US, a relative handful of wealthy parasites and ther politician cronies are directly responsible for the problem, but blame it on poor and not coincidentally disempowered innocents.