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This bill establishes a framework to pressure Mexico into fulfilling its water delivery obligations under the 1944 Water Treaty between the United States and Mexico. The legislation requires the Secretary of State to submit an annual report assessing Mexico's water delivery performance, specifically evaluating whether Mexico has delivered at least 350,000 acre-feet of water to the United States and analyzing Mexico's capability to deliver 1,750,000 acre-feet of water during the treaty's five-year cycle. If Mexico fails to meet these water delivery requirements, the President would be mandated to deny non-Treaty water requests from Mexico and potentially limit engagement with the Mexican government across various economic sectors, with a key exception for requests related to countering synthetic drug trafficking. The bill also provides a narrow pathway for Mexico to receive water delivery exceptions if the request is exclusively for addressing ecological, environmental, or humanitarian emergencies and is deemed vital to U.S. national interests. The legislation defines "non-Treaty requests" as emergency water delivery requests made through the International Boundary and Water Commission, drawing from specific historical water delivery minutes between the two countries. By creating these diplomatic and economic incentives, the bill aims to ensure Mexico's compliance with existing water-sharing agreements.

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