Farmers and workers in northern Mexico have ambushed National Guard soldiers and seized a dam to stop water payments to the US. With ever-decreasing rainfall and rising temperatures, the exchange of water from the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers between Mexico and the US has become a highly-contentious issue of national security.
So what?
The standoff illustrates how far people are willing to go to defend livelihoods in an increasingly climate-changed and resource-scarce world. As weather patterns become ever-more extreme, might we see this kind of conflict become more common?
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