US withholding water from Mexico to address debt, official says. IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner says US wants to send Mexico a message, and denying water is the ‘first step’.
The United States is holding back water payments to Mexico in order to send a message, the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commissioner told Border Report.
“The first action that the State Department has done is in denying water deliveries to Mexico in the Tijuana area,” U.S. IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner told Border Report last week when she visited South Texas. “We wanted to signal to them that our level of cooperation is diminishing because of the lack of performance on water deliveries. This is a first step,” Giner said.
