Yesterday, the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, through the International Boundary and Water Commission (CILA for its acronym in Spanish), signed a collaboration agreement with the Tijuana State Public Services Commission (CESTP for its acronym in Spanish), to work on the situation of cross-border sewage spills. This was done following Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon’s instructions to solve the situation of cross-border sewage spills into California, USA.
The objective of this agreement is to determine the necessary steps for CILA to take over the rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of the pumping systems that gather the sewage from the Tijuana River. This agreement marks the beginning of the necessary actions to fix the cross-border sewage spills that have damaged the sustainability of the Tijuana River basin.
The Secretariat of Foreign Affairs has negotiated with different institutions within the Mexican Federal Government in order to program and obtain the necessary resources. These resources will be immediately destined for the analysis and solution of the problem, which will take place in a gradual but definitive way.
The collaboration agreement was signed in the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs by Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, State Governor of Baja California, and by Roberto Salmón Castelo, Mexican Commisioner for CILA.
