US, Mexico Reach Agreement to Fix Tijuana River Sewage Crisis: EPA

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agreement sets the ‘framework for tremendous steps to be made.’

Trash lines the beaches near the Tijuana River mouth outside of San Diego, Calif., on Sept. 19, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The Trump administration has signed a new binational agreement with Mexico, advancing efforts to solve a decades-long sewage crisis plaguing residents both north and south of the transnational Tijuana River.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Dec. 15 that the United States and Mexico have signed a “historic new agreement” called Minute 333. The binational agreement saw both nations agree to additional actions that the EPA said will “progress to permanently and urgently end the decades-long Tijuana River sewage crisis.”