Mexico’s president is calling for environmental studies of an Arizona proposal to build a desalination plant on the Gulf of California.
Late last year, an Arizona water agency voted to consider multiple options to increase the state’s supply — including a proposal to build a desalination plant on the Gulf of California.
A proposal a few years ago to pump desalinated water near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, to Arizona was scrapped after concerns from the governor of Sonora.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pointed out at her daily morning press conference Wednesday that desalination plants, generally, can have environmental impacts.
“You take the salt out of the water, and then the problem is, what do you do with the salt?” Sheinbaum said.
She noted that returning the salt to the sea is one option and works in some cases, but said that could cause problems for the Gulf of California’s sensitive and biodiverse ecosystem. Those possible environmental impacts, she said, would have to be studied.
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A decision from the United Nations’ cultural preservation body, UNESCO, calls for a mission to the Sonora desert nature reserve to assess the impacts of the border wall. -
The investment goes toward modernizing the around 55 mile long stretch between the Lukeville-Sonoyta border crossing into Arizona and Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point. -
Mexico’s environmental protection agency is cleaning up more than 3,000 gallons of sulfuric acid that spilled when a tractor trailer overturned on a highway not far from the Arizona border. -
Sonora’s cattle ranchers’ union says the border will reopen to live cattle after a “technical problem” is resolved. -
The newly inaugurated Plaza de las Buscadoras features a statue of a woman searching for the remains of a missing loved one with a shovel.
