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'Megadrought' along border strains US-Mexico water relations

  • Written by Robert Gabriel Varady, Research Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Arizona
'Megadrought' along border strains US-Mexico water relationsLake Mead, which serves seven U.S. states and three Mexican states, is drying up.Ethan Miller/Getty Images

The United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall.

Map showing the American Southwest and northern MexicoThe Colorado River Basin.U.S. Geological Survey

Sustained drought on the middle-lower Rio Grande...

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