Biden appointee tasked with fixing aging infrastructure contributing to longstanding pollution at U.S.-Mexico border. 'Priority No. 1 is safety.'
Bureaucratic blunders, mismanagement, partisan politics, cross-border politics, understaffing, equipment failures. The list of reasons for the longstanding sewage crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is long. At the center is the International Boundary and Water Commission, the binational agency responsible for preventing water pollution in the Tijuana River and southern San Diego County shorelines. It has been severely handicapped in its task.
And is things that are working. It’s running on four spares, but I cannot get to you yet.” A sigh of relief came in March. Congress approved a $103 million boost to the IBWC’s annual construction budget, which Giner said will largely be used to fix the dilapidated South Bay plant. The legislation also greenlights the IBWC to receive funding from other federal and non-federal entities, such as state and local governments and nonprofits, significantly boosting its power to finance repairs.
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