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Mexico is required to transfer water to the United States every five years from the two dams the countries share on the Texas border.

The 1944 treaty sets five-year cycles for these water deliveries, with the latest scheduled to end in October .

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been leading the fight to get South Texas the water it is owed, but Sleepy Joe refused to lift a finger.

“It’s really causing a lot of severe issues not only for the valley but along the river from El Paso down to Brownsville ,” Texas Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa said at the hearing. State Sen. Charles Perry had previously said he would like the Trump administration to include the water treaty in its tariff negotiations. “It would be nice to include water release under the 1944 treaty in those tariff negotiations so that we could get some relief in the valley,” Perry said. — With files from Reuters .

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