President Donald Trump recently addressed Mexico’s failure to pay the water it owes the U.S. under a decades-old treaty. Under the 1944 treaty, Mexico must send 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the U.S. from the Rio Grande every five years, and the United States is to pay Mexico 1.5 million acre-feet of water annually via the Colorado River out West. Mexico, however, has fallen behind on its payments. … The water payments are just one of several water-related issues at which the U.S. and Mexico are at odds. In San Diego, raw sewage has been flowing in from Mexico for decades via the Tijuana River, which runs from the south to the north. When it rains, tons of debris and trash, in addition to millions of gallons of sewage-tainted water, make their way north of the border and, eventually, into the Pacific Ocean. The bacteria in the water has forced the closure of beaches in southern San Diego that have already been in place for years.

Other U.S.-Mexico water news:

• FOX5/KUSI (San Diego): Water contact closure lifted in La Jolla after sewage spill
• Times of San Diego: San Diego County reopens some beach areas in La Jolla, Coronado