{"id":183249,"date":"2024-02-21T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/us-mexico-border-100-billion-gallons-of-toxic-sewage-creating-a-public-health-crisis"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:25:46","slug":"us-mexico-border-100-billion-gallons-of-toxic-sewage-creating-a-public-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/us-mexico-border-100-billion-gallons-of-toxic-sewage-creating-a-public-health-crisis","title":{"rendered":"US-Mexico border: 100 billion gallons of toxic sewage creating a \u2018public health crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-mexico-border-100-billion-gallons-of-toxic-sewage-creating-a-public-health-crisis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth San Diego County is in a total state of emergency related to transboundary pollution, and this is a public health ticking time bomb,\u201d Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre told ABC News. \u201cWe are living in conditions that nobody in this great nation should be living in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tijuana River \u2013 which has been classified as an impaired water body, according to the U.S. Clean Water Act \u2014 flows north for 120 miles from Mexico to California before reaching the Pacific Ocean on the U.S. side of the border in the Imperial Beach, San Ysidro and Coronado coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last five years, 100 billion gallons of untreated sewage, industrial waste and urban runoff have been dumped into the Tijuana River, according to the <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/documents.coastal.ca.gov\/reports\/2023\/10\/W6b\/W6b-10-2023-appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">International Boundary and Water Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSouth San Diego County is in a total state of emergency related to transboundary pollution, and this is a public health ticking time bomb,\u201d Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre told ABC News. \u201cWe are living in conditions that nobody in this great nation should be living in.\u201d The Tijuana River \u2013 which has been classified [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}