Overview
- The five-year delivery cycle that ended on October 24, 2025 closed with a shortfall, which council members quantified at 1,068 million cubic meters.
- After a council meeting, Mexican officials asserted that under the treaty the deficit from Cycle 36 can be repaid by October 24, 2030, meaning there is no immediate outstanding debt.
- The U.S. government warned last week that Mexico must make up the deficit at the end of the 2020–2025 cycle, a position also backed by Texas.
- The council described the 1944 accord as the supreme rule for Rio Bravo allocation and said Mexican tributaries are subject first to its international-use provisions, citing the Senate’s approval dictamen.
- No formal remediation plan from Mexico has been reported to address how or when the owed volumes will be delivered.