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On August 14, 1983, at La Paz, Baja California Sur, the United States and Mexico entered into the United States–Mexico Agreement on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area, known as the La Paz Agreement. [3] The agreement aims to protect and conserve the environment along the border.
The morning after Hilary passed through Tijuana, life for most of the city’s residents was largely back to normal. Commuters clogged mostly clear highways and even on side roads, deep pools of ...
Watch the moment a building came crashing down onto a road following a landslide in Tijuana, Mexico, on the morning of Sunday, 9 April. Posting footage of the incident, Tijuana mayor Montserrat ...
Watch the moment a building came crashing down onto a road following a landslide in Tijuana, Mexico, on the morning of Sunday, 9 April. It is the second building to collapse in the area, according ...
Even though most of the plant's raw sewage comes from Tijuana, it is owned by the U.S. portion of the International Boundary and Water Commission, an agreement between Mexico and the US that helps delineate border lines and allocate water flow from the rivers and other bodies of water that intermingle between the U.S. and Mexico. [5] [4]
Water supply and sanitation in Mexico is characterized by achievements and challenges. Among the achievements is a significant increase in access to piped water supply in urban areas (88% to 93%) as well as in rural areas (50% to 74%) between 1990 and 2010.
The electricity sector in Mexico relies heavily on thermal sources (74% of total installed capacity), followed by hydropower generation (22%) in 2005. [20] The largest hydro plant in Mexico is the 2,300 MW Manuel Moreno Torres in Chicoasén, Chiapas. This is the world's fourth most productive hydroelectric plant. [21]
The Alamar Zone has been the site of active environmental justice, conservation, and land use community development planning efforts for nearly two decades. Various neighborhoods located within the Arroyo Alamar united with representatives from Tijuana's Human Rights office in November 2005 to advocate for the health risks of inhabitants associated with environmental contamination of the ...