Mexican Sewage Is Flowing Into US.
For years, raw sewage from Mexico has poured across the border into Southern California, fouling beaches, sickening residents and sparking diplomatic as well as environmental concerns.
The Tijuana River, which crosses from Mexico into California before emptying into the Pacific Ocean, carries not just water but millions of gallons of untreated sewage.
“Each day, a toxic mixture of effluents from maquiladora, Mexican factories that make products for the U.S. market, and raw sewage from Mexico pours through estuaries and out of the Tijuana River, devastating the Pacific coastline – in both Mexico and the United States,” James Cooper, professor of law at California Western School of Law, told Newsweek.
“This has been going on for decades,” Cooper said.
