Impact of Two NAFTA Institutions on Border Water Infrastructure

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Environmental concerns surrounding the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) led to an agreement establishing the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) and the North American Development Bank (NADBank) to promote water, wastewater, and solid waste infrastructure projects in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The creation of these organizations represents a unique cooperative attempt to address environmental infrastructure needs of a transboundary region through a trade agreement. The development assistance provided by these organizations is innovative because of its focus on producing debt-financed and user-fee-supported projects that are developed with public participation. Because BECC and NADBank are significant components of the governments’ efforts to address environmental infrastructure needs in the region, their performance is significant in determining how well government assistance has addressed the region’s environmental problems. Between 1995 and

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