San Diego – The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement that outlines specific stages and to clean a new timetable problem Tijuana river sewage across the border And polluting the California beaches, officials of the two countries announced on Thursday.
Billions of gallon sewage and toxic chemicals from Tijuana have pollted the Pacific Ocean from the neighboring southern California, closed beaches and have made the naval sealing naval sealing training in water ill. This is despite many attempts and millions of dollars that have been inserted to address the problem for decades, including the first Trump administration.
“There is a major commitment to strengthen cooperation by the two countries, after signing a memorandum for a memorandum, after signing a memorandum of environmental protection agency in Mexico City on Thursday, Mexico’s Environment Secretary Alicia Ber Sena said.
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The agreement was reached three months after Zeldin’s flying to San Diego to meet with Mexican officials and go to the border.
He said, “I smell that many residents of the community lived through and they have to deal with.” “I saw the erosion of the Tijuana River Valley. I heard about the beaches that were closed. I met with the Navy seals who have impressed their training. It was a powerful journey for me.”
Zeldin said, “The Trump administration is proud of this massive environmental and national security victory for Americans in the San Diego region, which have been flowing in their communities with a very long time with this disgusting raw sewage,” Zeldin said, “said,” Zeldin said, ” CBS San Diego according to affiliated KFMB-TV,
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Under the agreement, Mexico will complete its allocation of $ 93 million towards infrastructure projects, including to follow a specific program for priority projects spread through 2027.
The 120 -mile long Tijuana River moves near the coast in Mexico and crosses the southern California, where it flows through the Navy -owned land and Pacific.
As the wastewater treatment plants of Tijuana are older in plants, its population and industry – including manufacturing plants, known as Makuldorus that makes us the goods – has been bounced. At the same time, there has been an increase in the amount of toxins that have made their way into the river and in the San Diego County – since 2018, more than 100 billion gallons of Laden with industrial chemicals and waste more than raw sewage.
Pollution has not only made swimmers, surfers and lifeguards, but also school children, border patrol agents and others who do not even go into water. Scientists say that sewage is evaporated when it foam and enters the air, people breathe.
California beaches near the border have been closed Not more often in the last four years.
Since 2020, more than $ 653 million funds have been allocated to address the issue, but the crisis has continued to a great extent due to the delay by the Mexican government, Zeldin has said.
Zeldin stated that the agreement is “population growth, operation and maintenance costs and other variables that will make this solution durable and long -term.”
He praised the new administration of Mexican President Claudia Shinbam last October for his desire to address the issue.
Shinbam earlier said on Thursday that his government would expand an waste water treatment plant that would reduce contamination reaching the coast.
“There are other actions that were signed we have to fulfill, that we are going to complete the entire metropolitan Tijuana region for the entire Tijuana hygiene system in the following year,” he said.
Shinbam said that the United States also has to invest in a bisexual problem.
Referring to another agreement to send more water to the US to reduce Mexico’s water debt in Rio Grande, Shinbam said that the Tijuana River Agreement is “a good example that when our technical teams sit, they can solve a problem that looked useless.”
The US has agreed to complete the expansion of the South Bay International Westwater Treatment Plant next month. The agreement also suggests that Mexico removes 10 million gallons per day from the edge.
