Water war brewing along Mexico-California border

“The Bush administration urged a federal appeals court Monday to allow a section of a major canal separating California and Mexico to be lined with cement to stop millions of gallons of water from seeping south of the border each year.

The 82-mile-long All-American Canal, which gets life from the Colorado River, in part nourishes crops on both sides of the border about 100 miles east of San Diego along the Calexico-Mexicali border - where the lining is proposed. The U.S. government says Mexico already gets 489 billion gallons of Colorado River water legitimately each year under a 1944 treaty and isn’t entitled to the seepage, which provides a farming lifeline in Mexico.”

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