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Liv golf star Phil Mickelson reacted on social networks while a local Californian legislator talked about millions of gallons of wastewater thrown from Mexico in water near San Diego.
The San Diego District 5 supervisor, Jim Desmond, spoke during a recent meeting on the beaches of the Hotel Hotel Historé closed during the Memorial Day weekend. He also mentioned Navy Seals and other cities affected by the Mexico wastewater crisis.
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Phil Mickelson (Images Peter Casey-Imagn)
Desmond said at the meeting that the only solution is to build and maintain a treatment center.
“During the Memorial Day weekend, the beaches near the DEL hotel were closed – once again – because Mexico flows up to 10 million gallons of wastewater in our waters every day,” added Desmond on X Tuesday. “Our Navy seals fall sick. Imperial Beach has been closed for three years in a row. We pay 80% to treat Mexico wastewater while they are unaware of the decades of agreements and do nothing to repair their infrastructure.
“I introduced a common sense proposal to exert pressure, including the restriction of border activity during health emergencies – until Mexico took responsibility. Unfortunately, my colleagues voted, not wanting to put pressure on Mexico. San Diegans deserves better.
Phil Mickelson (Jim Dedmon-Imagn images)
Mexican wastewater gushing in the training waters of Navy Seal are us “Next Camp Lejeune”.
Mickelson also seemed to have his antenna on the issue.
“Something about this does not feel well,” he wrote in response to Desmond’s post.
The administrator of the environmental protection agency Lee Zeldin said that last month, the United States and Mexico were about to an agreement concerning the wastewater issue.
“This week, EPA has transmitted to Mexico a” 100% solution “proposed which would definitively end the crisis of decades of raw wastewater in the United States from Mexico. Then, the technical groups of the two nations will meet to work on the necessary details to, hope, an urgent agreement,” Zeldin wrote on X in May.
Zeldin went to San Diego in April, where he announced talks with his government counterparts in Mexico to end the question of decades. The problem, blamed for obsolete wastewater infrastructure, has persisted for decades but has been in spiral in recent years while the population of Tijuana has skyrocketed.
Tijuana, Mexico, High and San Diego (Getty Images)
In February, the Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense published a report concluding that the Special Warfare Center naval reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal diseases among the seal candidates between January 2019 and May 2023 which were allocated to contaminated water.
