Rio Conchos

And so the Mexicans who depended on it in, in, uh, you know, Ciudad Juarez or, or Matamoros, or, uh, Reynosa, and all these cities weren't getting water from the headwaters.

At the same time, there's another tributary, the one that we talked about in Chihuahua, the Rio Conchos, which was able to, was bringing water north into the Rio Grande, and Mexicans started using all that water.

And so the people who depended on it downstream in places like Laredo and, uh, McAllen weren't getting that water.

And so it gets bad enough that in 1944, the middle of World War II, the State Department, the diplomats in DC are busy.

They don't realize how close to crisis we are, that this isn't something that's gonna hit us in a decade or, you know, it's gonna affect our kids or our grandkids.

This is happening right now, that places like Laredo and McAllen multiple times in the last six years have been within a few months of running out of water.

And that's what happened in Chihuahua, is that people, farmers there could actually see the Rio Conchos drying up and disappearing and the reservoir shrinking, and so they rose up.

And you have to ask on the American side, if people get this visibility, if they see it, how are they going to react?