Mexico border sewage deal hits the rocks
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When it rains along the border, millions of gallons of sewage and industrial waste from Mexican slums and factories flow down the Tijuana River into the United States and end up in the Pacific Ocean &#151; a mess that closed the beach here to swimmers and surfers a total of 198 days last year.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--ARMONA -- In an attempt to save their Armona farm from becoming a water treatment plant, members of a Texas family pleaded their case before the local water district Wednesday night.
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ROMA, Texas  - Dozens of paddlers took to the waters of the Rio Grande on Saturday to protest a planned security fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that supporters say will stem the tide of illegal immigration from the south.
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Cold, hard cash is apparently not enough to quell the anger among landowners over a planned fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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PORT OF SWEET GRASS, Mont. - Jesse Huffman insists he didn't do it on purpose, but the toilet he left plugged after "nature called" at this border crossing in north-central Montana has him facing criminal charges...
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HARLINGEN -- Rio Grande Valley irrigators who say diplomatic efforts have failed to get them promised water from Mexico are seeking up to $500 million in damages from the Mexican government.
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The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics and spilled into the ever-simmering debate over Mexicoâs commitment to free-market economics.
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Anyone living in Canada who tuned into TVO last night saw an eye-opening documentary called El Contrato. The film, directed by Min Sook Lee, follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to work for eight months of the year as migrant labourers picking tomatoes -- in return for wages and working conditions that no locals will accept. Despite their fear of almost certain repercussions, the workers voice their desire not just for better working conditions, but for the simple dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.     Growers hire foreign workers under the government's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S) in Ontario (and by F.E.R.M.E. in Quebec, New Brunswick and P.E.I.). Because the growers monitor themselves, and because there is a long line of jobless men "back home" willing and eager to take the place of those in the program, the workers are as ripe for exploitation as the fruit they pick.
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By Sue Vorenberg SVORENBERG@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3678  Here's a potential rule for New Mexico developers: If you build it, they will come -- but only if you have enough water to last 100 years.   Environment New Mexico -- which was until Sept.
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It is a Texas showdown, a war of words over illegal immigration at the border.
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Local leaders in South Texas are puzzled and alarmed over the implications of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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ON THE RIO GRANDE, Texas  - The riot of green vegetation that lines both sides of the Rio Grande river along the southeast Texas and Mexican border can give a canoeist the impression of gliding past unbroken wilderness.
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Saying diplomacy between the United States and Mexico hasnât worked, Rio Grande Valley irrigators told Mexico on Friday they plan to file a claim with international
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How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine.
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On the only government-licensed hand-pulled ferry along the U.S. border, the chatter is all about the upcoming election. Not the Bush-Kerry race, but the choices for mayor of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the Mexican town on the other side of the Rio Grande.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) is having a severe effect on rural Mexico, TVE's Earth Report programme claims.
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By Melissa Mcever, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Feb. 18--Before water even starts its journey from the headwaters of the Rio Grande to the Gulf of Mexico, it's already spoken for.   Every drop of the Rio Grande belongs to a city, an irrigation district, an industry, a landowner.