San Diego city officials urged the governments of the U.S. and Mexico on Friday to address the growing crisis of wastewater being pumped into the city from neighboring Tijuana that has sickened residents and Navy SEALs.
“Mexico just dumped 6 million gallons of sewage into the Tijuana River — after promising they wouldn’t. Let me be clear: this is not a one-time mistake. It’s a pattern of broken promises,” wrote San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond on X, adding: “For the past week, we’ve been told everything from ‘hundreds of millions of gallons are coming’ to ‘nothing at all is being released.’ The truth? We are at the mercy of a foreign government that continues to pollute our waters — while we get stuck with the consequences.”
The rapid growth of Tijuana and that city’s inability to update its infrastructure have burdened sewage treatment centers with massive amounts of wastewater they cannot handle. The result has been a staggering 31 billion gallons of raw sewage, storm runoff and other pollutants that have flowed into the Tijuana River since 2023, resulting in an environmental catastrophe.
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