Ensuring Predictable and Reliable Water Deliveries Act of 2025

Annual water report and limits on Mexico requests

If enacted, the State Department would report to Congress within 180 days and then every year on Mexico’s treaty water deliveries. The report would check if Mexico delivered at least 350,000 acre-feet last year, judge if it can reach 1,750,000 acre-feet by the five-year cycle’s end, and name Mexican sectors tied to irrigation-fed districts. If Mexico missed 350,000 acre-feet, the President would have to deny all emergency, non‑Treaty water requests and could limit engagement with those sectors, except work to stop fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. A request could still proceed only if, within 120 days and then every 120 days, the Secretary certifies it is solely for an ongoing ecological, environmental, or humanitarian emergency—not for municipal, industrial, normal water supply needs, water infrastructure deficiencies, or maintenance—and that it is vital to U.S. national interests. The bill would define a “non‑Treaty request” as emergency water deliveries under International Boundary and Water Commission Minutes, such as Minute 240 (1972) and Minute 327 (2022).