A bill ensure the reliable delivery of water to the United States under the 1944 Water Treaty, to provide a mechanism to compensate United States agricultural producers for economic losses resulting from delivery shortfalls, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4549 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4549 To ensure the reliable delivery of water to the United States under the 1944 Water Treaty, to provide a mechanism to compensate United States agricultural producers for economic losses resulting from delivery shortfalls, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 14, 2026 Mr. Cornyn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To ensure the reliable delivery of water to the United States under the 1944 Water Treaty, to provide a mechanism to compensate United States agricultural producers for economic losses resulting from delivery shortfalls, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Water Assurance and Treaty Enforcement for Rio Grande Farmers Act'' or the ``WATER for Farmers Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Treaty relating to the Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande, signed at Washington February 3, 1944 (9 Bevans 1166), between the United States and Mexico (in this Act referred to as the ``1944 Water Treaty'' or the ``Treaty''), intends for Mexico to deliver annually to the United States a minimum of 350,000 acre-feet of water from the Rio Grande basin, measured in cycles of 5 consecutive years. (2) The practice of relying on storm events to comply with the terms of the Treaty, unpredictable yearly deliveries, and accumulating large deficits, create profound uncertainty and have inflicted severe economic harm on United States agricultural producers and comm