A massive water-supply-chain interrupted at the US-Mexico border
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In 1944 Mexico and the United States agreed to share water from three rivers that run through their border from California to Texas. Today, due to drier conditions, the Aztec nation is struggling to meet a quota that could endanger a decades long deal. Alasdair Baverstock explains.
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