Due to the state’s drought and a lack of fluids obligations from Mexico, the South Texas border city of Edinburg announced that Level 2 water restrictions will soon begin.
That means that only on certain days did people be able to use the liquid laws, and no discharge of waters on city roads is permitted.
The fresh regulations begin Monday.
The towns of McAllen and Mission, in Hidalgo County, and Brownsville, in Cameron County, even are in Phase 2 liquid limits.
Since Hidalgo County in the Rio Grande Valley is now under an a , crisis drought declaration, Edinburg is the most recent town to enact water limits.
That’s largely due to a lack of precipitation, and according to Mexico’s failure to pay an expected annual allotment of liquid to the Rio Grande, under a 1944 international waters agreement.
Mexico has until October 2025 to give the 1.75 million acre feet of water it owes the United States during this 5-year water period, but researchers think that is unlikely given that it has only billed Mexico for one year of ocean owed so far in this period.
A sugar factory in Santa Rosa shut down earlier this year because of the lack of water, leading to the loss of 500 work. It was Texas’s unique honey machine. The other two are in Florida and Louisiana.
Due to a lack of water, other towns are now considering putting limits on development tasks.
Sandra Sanchez can be reached at [email protected].
