 "The Economist (US)")
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A water debt boils over; Mexico and the United States.(Mexico's water war)(drought in the US/Mexico border area challenges water-exchange agreement)(Brief Article)
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The Economist (US)
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June 22, 2002
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A border drought has become dangerously political
THE best way to get a sense of the chronic water shortage afflicting the frontier region between the United States and Mexico is to stand in front of the church of Nuestra Senora del Refugio in the village of Antigua Ciudad Guerrero. The church's handsome colonial facade is a little battered. But what makes its survival remarkable is that until recently it was submerged beneath Falcon reservoir. When the reservoir was cre...
