International Water Agency Mourns Loss of Mexican, U.S. Leaders
In the wake of the tragic loss of its two leaders last month, the International Boundary and Water Commission is searching for ways to move forward. Last month the agency’s U.S. Commissioner Carlos Marin and Mexican Commissioner Arturo Herrera were killed when the charter plane they were in crashed in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico.
The officials were conducting an aerial survey as part of the joint US-Mexican effort to respond to flood conditions in the Rio Grande basin. Two others on board, the Executive Director of the Rio Grande Council of Governments, Jake Brisbin, Jr., and the pilot, Matthew Peter Juneau, were also killed in the crash.