Environmentalists are intensifying their criticism of a private, U.S. company’s plan to treat sewage in Mexico under a no-bid contract with the U.S. government. They complain the plan, made possible by a bill that won U.S. Congressional approval last October, is politically driven and questionable on technical grounds—a charge supporters of the so-called Bajagua project roundly reject. The criticism is part of a long-running debate over efforts to handle excess Mexican raw sewage that, if not collected and treated, flows north through the Tijuana River valley to U.S. border communities and beaches. An early step in those efforts was the construction of a sewage plant on the U.S. side of the border by the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), a... [Log in to read more]