{"id":485748,"date":"2026-10-05T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485748\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:28:26","slug":"mexico-building-desal-plant-before-sewage-fix-is-outrageous-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485748\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico building desal plant before sewage fix is outrageous\u00a0 \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cMexico breaks ground on new desalination plant in Rosarito\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/09\/25\/mexico-breaks-ground-on-new-desalination-plant-in-rosarito-to-bolster-regions-water-supply\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 29<\/a>): Please tell me that your article is a typo. The formerly pristine beaches of Imperial Beach and south of Coronado have been closed for over 1,700 consecutive days now.<\/p>\n<p>Billions of gallons of toxic pollution consisting of hazardous waste, industrial chemicals, trash and human excrement continue to flow down the Tijuana River directly into mother ocean. Consider how El Ni\u00f1o will wreak havoc this winter!<\/p>\n<p>While Mexico builds the largest desal plant in Latin America, where is their progress on our Tijuana River sewage crisis?<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable! I\u2019ll hope for that typo retraction in the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Blanke, Carlsbad<\/p>\n<p>How is it that Mexico can build an $850 million desalination plant but can\u2019t clean up its own sewage that\u2019s polluting our coastline?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Lackey, Carlsbad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cMexico breaks ground on new desalination plant in Rosarito\u201d (Sept. 29): Please tell me that your article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-485748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}