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Dana Fennell
The International Boundary and Water Commission is in hot water with communities in the Tijuana River Valley. As a result of incompetent treatment capacities and deteriorating wastewater treatment infrastructure, 40 million gallons of untreated wastewater flow from the Tijuana River into the Pacific Ocean every day. A 2022 binational agreement aimed to address this problem through short-term and long-term infrastructure projects for the U.S. and Mexico. This agreement is halfway through its short-term timeline and is unlikely to be fully completed before its anticipated ending in 2027. This article will propose social regimes to support incremental progress, highlight other international water commissions that can serve as models, and propose a new, refreshed binational agreement to ensure the wastewater crisis in the Tijuana River Valley continues to be addressed.
