Marfa Public Radio

Dating La Junta: Filling in the Story of an Indigenous Borderlands Culture

It features prominently in the earliest European account of the American Southwest, and it’s a fascinating chapter in Texas ...
KPBS

Texas farmers struggle as Mexico and U.S. wrestle with water from the Rio Grande treaty

PRESIDIO, Texas– Most of the water that courses through the Rio Grande to reach parched farmlands along the border gets its start here, where the Rio Grande is replenished through Mexico's Rio Conchos ...
Circle of Blue

The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty

The most important is the Rio Conchos that flows from the Sierra Tarahumara through the agricultural heart of Chihuahua before joining the Rio Grande at Presidio, Texas. The 1944 water treaty commits ...
Texas Monthly

Mexico Is Sending Texas Billions of Gallons of Water. It Won’t Be Enough.

There’s a scenic overlook off the highway above the deep ravine of the Cañón del Pegüis in Chihuahua, Mexico, not far from the Texas border and Big Bend National Park. At the edge of this dramatic ...
El Paso Times

'It’s our reservoir': Tensions rise in Rio Grande basin as Mexico lags in US water deliveries

Editor's note: This story, reported with a grant from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder, is published in partnership withInside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news ...