Mexico Refuses Drought Stressed California A New Source Of Water

Baja California state’s infrastructure minister says the under-construction Rosarito desalination plant will not supply San Diego.

The plant about 15 miles south of San Diego is being built and is to be operated by Suez. It’s the first of two proposed plants that will collectively produced 150 million gallons a day, enough to supply more than 300,000 homes on both sides of the Mexico-US border.

The plans were initiated as a  sort of  partnership between Mexico and America but the US was criticised as if this collaboration was an effort to dodge domestic environmental reviews and legal challenges.

This could fire up the long-standing dispute between both countries over the Colorado River where Mexico are protected by a 1944 treaty.

The river feeds several U.S. states and northwest Mexico. The assistant director for binational affairs at Mexico’s National Water Commission, Jose Gutierrez, who says “the treaty carries great significance in our country. We have to protect it fiercely.”

Do you think Mexico are right to take this stance given the current US administrations controversial plans?

P ower plant in Playas de Rosarito where the desalination plant was proposed to be constructed next to so that the vast amounts of water used at the plant could be used for desalination.

Source: Future Desalination