February 6, 2008--Texas farmers take water war to Canada (Washington Post)
More than 40 Texas farmers, ranchers and irrigation districts are gearing up to take their long-standing water war with Mexico to the next level, which in this case is a Canadian judge. In 2004, the farmers and ranchers sued Mexico for $500 million, arguing that their southern neighbor had shorted them on Rio Grande water from 1992 to 2002 in violation of a 1944 treaty. The case goes to Canada because both sides agreed in arbitration that if an issue arose they would go to a neutral location.
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