oh, yeah . . . t. boone pickens . . .
http://www.voteenvironment.org/statenews/TX041601.htm
and check it out, there's even an enron tie-in! http://www.citizen.org/documents/LiquidAssets.pdf
or as html: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:p0xfR__jU7MC:www.citizen.org/documents/ LiquidAssets.pdf+water+privatization+texas+pickens+acre+feet&hl=en
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On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 12:31 AM, pms wrote:
> Mexico To Put Off Decision On US Water Debt - Report
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> MEXICO CITY (AP)--The administration of President Vicente Fox will
> probably
> take more time to come up with a repayment proposal for the water it
> owes
> the United States from the Rio Grande, news reports said Wednesday.
> Fox had been expected to present a plan two weeks after meeting with
> President George W. Bush in mid-May, but will need more time to come up
> with
> a consensus among Mexican farmers and restive northern state governors
> who
> are loath to give up a drop, the newspaper Reforma quoted administration
> sources as saying.
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> Mexico argues it is suffering a severe drought that prevents it from
> repaying the debt, but some U.S. researchers say it's not a problem of
> rainfall here, but rather Mexico's increasing use of water.
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> Fox's search for a compromise solution came as pressure mounted even in
> Fox's own National Action Party to put off repayment or slow it down.
> National Action's congressional leader, Rep. Felipe Calderon, suggested
> Wednesday that the 1944 treaty governing border water rights allows for
> late
> repayments under " extreme circumstances" of drought.
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> Farmers in Texas say Mexico's failure to release the water is causing
> them
> huge losses.
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> Mexico and the United States share water from the Rio Grande in Texas
> and
> the Colorado River under the treaty.
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> Mexico began falling behind in releases of Rio Grande water downriver
> to the
> United States and now owes about 1.5 million acre feet of water. Each
> acre
> feet is about 326,000 gallons of water -enough to flood an acre about a
> foot
> deep.
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> (This story was originally published by Dow Jones Newswires)
> Copyright (c) 2002 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
> All Rights Reserved
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