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Holiday In Wales President Vicente Fox will not meet a deadline for a plan to pay Mexico's enormous water debt to the United States, Mr. Fox's aides said today. Mexico owes 456 billion gallons under a 1944 treaty, a debt run up over a decade.

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Holiday Wales Mr. Fox promised President Bush two weeks ago that on May 30, he would announce a strategy to pay off the debt. But today there is no plan to divide the waters of the Rio Grande, which divides Texas and Mexico along a 1,250-mile border, and there will not be one tomorrow, the aides said.

Cottage Holiday In Wales The Rio Grande valley is a semiarid place where millions depend on other people's water for their economic existence. Severe water shortages are creating social and political strains on both sides of the river.

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Caravan Holiday In Wales Mr. Fox's aides now say it will take five years or more to pay the debt. To honor it by this summer, as Texas has requested, is impossible, said Alberto Szekely, the national water secretary. "Not even draining all the reservoirs would satisfy that demand," he said.

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Camping Holiday Wales The United States ambassador, Jeffrey Davidow, acknowledges that Mexico is a thirsty land but says it could begin paying its some of its due tomorrow. "Let's share the water that there is," he said. "The suffering has to be shared."

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Accommodation Holiday Wales There is enough suffering to go around, to be sure, but not enough water. Thousands of farmers on both sides of the border, gripped by an eight-year drought, stand to lose their crops, in part because Mexico has not allowed enough water to flow to the Rio Grande. Texans are especially aggrieved because Mr. Fox now has twice promised to pay the debt, accumulated by two past Mexican presidents.

Holiday Last Minute Wales Mr. Fox's close relations with Washington will be hurt if he cannot come up with a plan. His inability to deliver quickly on his personal pledge to Mr. Bush to solve the water crisis is raising questions about his ability to govern.

Catering Holiday Self Wales "Vicente Fox is trying to pay an accumulated debt of corruption, environmental degradation and administrative negligence," said Sergio Aguayo, a leading political analyst in Mexico.

Holiday Wales Walking But, he added, "one of this president's flaws is that he announces things before he accomplishes them." The water debt, left unpaid, "will contaminate his other problems" with the United States, including an impasse over immigration and economic development issues, Mr. Aguayo said.

Family Holiday Wales Mexico wants the United States to help finance millions of dollars in improvements to its irrigation and wastewater treatment facilities to help meet its debt. Beyond that, farmers and politicians alike are facing the fact that drought and demand may alter the way people live along the river.

Holiday Riding Wales Since the 1944 treaty, irrigated agriculture has flooded the dry lands of the Rio Grande basin, feeding thirsty crops like citrus and sugar cane in a semidesert.

Adventure Holiday Wales "There must be fundamental change in the ways water's being used on both sides of the border," said George Kourous, an expert on border issues at the Interhemispheric Resource Center, a research group in New Mexico.

Holiday Park South Wales Those changes should include both governments "sitting down together and working on a plan," said Mary Kelly, executive director of the Texas Center for Policy Studies, an environmental group in Austin. "Times change. Economies change. And water management policies have to change with them."

Cottage Holiday Wales By Tim Weiner
New York Times - 5/30/2002

Topic: Water

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