Can the Water Resiliency Fund Help Revive the Endangered Rio Grande?

“It’s billions of dollars to focus on this, and this is all hands on deck," says Jesse Hereford, a NADBank official.

A view of the Rio Grande from the U.S. side in Starr County, Texas in June 2025. (Photo credit: Vicky Guerra)

The lower Rio Grande, which supplies drinking water to millions on both sides of the border from Del Rio, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, is the fifth-most endangered river in the United States. That’s according to the water conservation nonprofit …