Tag: International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)

MERCEDES — Last August, water levels at Falcon International Reservoir dropped to just 9%, the lowest in the manmade lake’s 70-year history.

Officials with the International Boundary and Water Commission have temporarily closed the international bridge that spans the top of Amistad Dam in order to carry out routine maintenance on a power plant underneath the structure.

FALCON HEIGHTS — For farmers in the Rio Grande Valley, things are getting desperate.

Lifelong farmer Dale Murden remembers wondering why his grandmother would collect rainwater at her home in rural Elsa to water her flowers.

Halfway into a five-year cycle where Mexico must deliver a deluge of water to the United States, the country is already falling far behind in meeting its obligations.

A foundation of porous prehistoric limestone is putting the structural integrity of the Amistad International Dam at risk of failure with the potential to impact hundreds of thousands of people living downstream.

The U.S. section of the International Boundary and Water Commission has scheduled a public meeting of the Lower Rio Grande Citizens Forum for Nov. 16.

WESLACO — The water crisis is here.

After Mexico has spent the last 10 years struggling to meet its water delivery obligations to the United States, officials here have begun to...

HARLINGEN — International Boundary and Water Commission engineers say the vegetation removal along a 6.3-mile stretch of the Arroyo Colorado from the U.S. Business...