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Article: Water accord ends 12-year dispute between United States, Mexico.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2005
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Byline: Lennox Samuels
MEXICO CITY _ Texas will receive billions of gallons of water it is owed by Mexico in an agreement Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Thursday between U.S. and Mexican officials.
The accord ends a 12-year-old dispute that sometimes became acrimonious. The issue once prompted Mexican President Vicente Fox to cancel a planned U.S. visit, and some Rio Grande farmers sued Mexico for crop loss stemming from nonpayment of the water.
"In the spirit of bilateral cooperation, I am pleased that we have reached a mutual understanding on the transfer of a sum of water that will cover Mexico's debt to the United States under ...