TX farming crisis looms as US, Mexico spar over long-standing water treaty [Video]

• Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for crops due to a dispute over a decades-old water treaty between Mexico and the U.S.
• The treaty requires Mexico to provide water from the Rio Grande to U.S. farmers, but Mexico has only delivered about 30 percent of the expected amount, causing severe shortages.
• The lack of water has led to the shutdown of the last sugar mill in Texas and is impacting employment in the region.

Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for citrus and sugar as Mexican and U.S. officials try to resolve a dispute over a decades-old water treaty that supplies U.S. farmers with critical irrigation.

The neighboring countries have tussled over the 1944 treaty before, but the current drought-driven water shortages are the most severe in nearly 30 years and add to existing political tensions over genetically modified corn.

Under the treaty designed to allocate shared …