Commentary: Tainted water and the Tijuana River — a border tragedy
What had gone so wrong that we could not swim in the ocean in an American city? The problem of Mexican sewage-tainted water polluting southern San Diego County beaches has been going on for decades. What was once viewed as an environmental problem has become a public health issue.
–Written by Rita Schmidt Sudman, former longtime executive director of the Water Education Foundation and author of a book on California water issues, Water: More or Less.