Sally Spener

A Battle for Water When the Rio Grande Runs Low

It’s been a long summer in South Texas–drought has set in while temperatures continue to climb. And Mexico has been feeling the heat, too. “We’ve had a water shortage for the last two years,” said Homero Chavez, a farmer just outside of Delicias in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua near the border. A 70-year-old […]