Weekly Report - 3 February 2004
MEXICO-US: `Water debt' pressure alarms farmers downstream
Farmers in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas have been voicing their concern that President Vicente Fox will bow to a `nudge' from US President George Bush Jr that the time has come for Mexico to start repaying the accumulated arrears on its `water debt' — just when, for the first time in three years, they have been allocated enough water to grow profitable crops.
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