Transboundary water resource issues on the US-Mexico border

Abstract

The beginning of the 21st century sees the U.S.-Mexico borderlands facing a range of water resource management challenges. These challenges include balancing increasing demands for water with limited water supplies in an arid region, reconciling upstream versus downstream riparian demands and uses of surface water, managing the overdraft of aquifers (especially in regions of sole source aquifer supply), and dealing with a host of water quality issues, both as regards surface water and groundw...