It’s going to take an act of God or some savvy last-minute negotiating for Mexico to liquidate its enormous water debt with the United States by October 24. A new minute to the 1944 binational water treatment was signed late last year and American officials particularly in Texas have been pressing for Mexico to catch up on late – very late – water deliveries to the Rio Grande. … But the fact remains that northern Mexico is experiencing a prolonged drought and reservoirs on both sides of the border are running low, a Mexican official familiar with the issue told Border Report. … The 1944 treaty requires the U.S. to deliver water to Mexico from the Colorado River and Mexico to apportion the water from six Rio Grande tributaries from Chihuahua to Tamaulipas.