1944 US-Mexico Water Treaty

About 1944 US-Mexico Water Treaty

Signed: 1944/02/03

Agreement Type: trans-national, treaty

Included in Agreement

Riparians - United States of America, Mexico
Water Resources - Colorado River, Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), Tijuana River

All Facts about 1944 US-Mexico Water Treaty

Treaty between the United States of America and Mexico relating to the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers, and of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico.

Case Studies Related to this Agreement

• The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery and San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Programs
• Transboundary Dispute Resolution: U.S./Mexico Shared Aquifers
• Water Competition & Cooperation in the Las Vegas Valley

Articles linked to this Agreement

Riparians	Water Features
Agreement includes riparian- United States of America, Mexico Other - United States of America Other - Mexico	Includes Water Resource- Colorado River, Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), Tijuana River Other - Colorado River Other - Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) Other - Tijuana River

Projects and Initiatives	Agreements and Treaties
	Previous agreement was- IBWC Minute 242

External Links

• Full Text of the Treaty — The full text for this and other documents are available at the website of the International Boundary Waters Commission website's treaty page

• Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD) (2012). Oregon State University. 1944 US-Mexico Water Treaty — The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD) This website is used to aid in the assessment of the process of water conflict prevention and resolution. Over the years we have developed this Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database, a project of the Oregon State University Department of Geosciences, in collaboration with the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering.