The Rio Grande is 1,896-mile long, the fifth longest river in the United StatesThe Rio Grande's watershed encompasses 335,000 square miles. It drains more than 40,000 square miles in Texas alone.A 1,250 mile segment of the river forms the international boundary between Mexico and the United States.The Rio Grande begins in the Colorado mountains, courses through New Mexico, forms the border between Texas and Mexico, and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.Historically, the river flowed continuously from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico until the early 1900s when construction of dams, channelization, human consumption, and landuse practices...

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It could be January before Oilman Clayton Williams will have a hearing on his plan to pump water out of Pecos County.The City of Fort Stockton filed a motion requesting that the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District postpone the dates.That's because a hydrology study won't be complete in time.Fort Stockton Holdings' and Williams agreed with the request to put off the hearing until January.A company executive says he respects that the city wants to completely analyze the stu...

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By Steve Taylor[ElizabethElizabeth Verdecchia runs the Texas Clean Rivers Program for the Rio Grande.MERCEDES, May 31 - High levels of bacteria in the section of the Rio Grande that runs through Brownsville and Matamoros remains a concern for the International Boundary and Water Commission.The issue will be discussed at the next meeting of the IBWC’s Lower Rio Grande Citizens Forum, which takes place Tuesday, June 8, at the Commission’s office in Mercedes.At the meeting, the IBWC’s Environmental Protection Specialist, Elizabeth Verdecchia, will provide an overview of water quality in the Lower Rio Grande as well as discuss...

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ROUND ROCK, May 24 – During a press conference in Mission recently, Gov. Rick Perry referred to the issue of ground water extraction from the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer by Clayton Williams’ company, Fort Stockton Holdings.A proposed plan to transport water via aqua ducts to the Midland-Odessa and San Angelo metropolitan areas is an issue requiring “the wisdom of Solomon,” Perry said, in a humorous reference to a prayer meeting he had just attended.South Texas political leaders along the Rio Grande have joined their counterparts in the Fort Stockton area in requesting a moratorium on the water extraction plans of some 41,000,000...

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Click here to view resolution between the county of Hidalgo and RGI...

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The IBWC traces its roots to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Treaty of 1853, which established temporary joint commissions to survey, map, and demarcate with ground landmarks the new United States (U.S.) – Mexico boundary. The Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty of February 2, 1848 established the international boundary between the United States and Mexico. The Treaty of December 30, 1853 reestablished the southern boundary of New Mexico and Arizona to enable the United States to construct a railroad to the west coast along a southern route and to resolve a question arising from the 1848 Treaty as to...

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