Mexico struggles with US water debt, suggests UN audit

As Mexico struggles to pay a water debt to the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he might personally appeal to President Donald Trump for clemency, or invite United Nations experts to audit water payments. Mexico has fallen behind in the amount of water it must send north from its dams under a 1944 treaty, and time is running out to make up the shortfall by the Oct. 24 deadline. The water treaty has become a burning political issue in northern Mexico, with conspiracy theories and violent protests springing up.

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