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Liv Golf star Phil Mickelson responded to social media when a local California legislator spoke of millions of gallon wastewater dumped from Mexico in the water near San Diego.
San Diego County District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond spoke at a recent meeting about the beaches around the historic hotel part closed during Memorial Day Weekend. He also mentioned Navy Seals and other cities affected by the wastewater crisis from Mexico.
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Phil Mickelson (Peter Casey-Preferred Pictures)
Desmond said at the meeting that the only solution is for Mexico to build and maintain a treatment facility.
“During Memorial Day Weekend, beaches near Hotel Del were shut down – again – because Mexico dumps up to 10 million gallon of wastewater in our waters every day,” Desmond added on X Tuesday. “Our Navy Seals get sick. Imperial Beach has been closed for three years in a row. We pay 80% to treat Mexico’s wastewater while ignoring decades of appointments and do nothing to solve their infrastructure.
“I introduced a common sense proposal to apply pressure-inclusive limitation of border activity during health emergency emergencies-to Mexico taking responsibility. Unfortunately, my colleagues voted it and would not push Mexico. San Diegans deserves better. I don’t back down.”
Phil Mickelson (Jim Dedmon-Preferred Pictures)
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Mickelson also seemed to have his antenna up on the problem.
“Something about this doesn’t really smell,” he wrote in response to Desmond’s post.
Environmental Protection Agency Manager Lee Zeldin said last month that the US and Mexico were on the verge of an agreement on the wastewater issue.
“This week, EPA transferred to Mexico a proposed ‘100% solution’ that would permanently end the decades -old crisis of raw wastewater flowing into the United States from Mexico. Next, technical groups from both nations meet to work through the details needed to hopefully reach an urgent deal,” Zeldin wrote in May.
Zeldin visited San Diego in April, announcing conversations with his government colleagues in Mexico to end the decades long question. The problem, accused of outdated wastewater infrastructure, is lasting for decades, but has spiraling in recent years when Tijuana’s population Skyrocket.
Tijuana, Mexico, Top and San Diego (Getty Images)
In February, the Department of Defense’s Inspector General released a report that found that Naval Special Warfare Center reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal diseases among seal candidates between January 2019 and May 2023 attributed to the contaminated water.
