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Environment Report: Reflecting Pool Contractor Tried Cleaning Tijuana River Too

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By MacKenzie Elmer Verified
| Voice of San Diego Verified
The president appears to be having a harder time cleaning the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool than the sewage-contaminated Tijuana River, even though he used the same contractor for both. The New York Times revealed over the weekend that Greenwater Services won a $1.7 million no-bid contract to install a water purification system in the pool located on the National Mall earlier this spring.
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No, the Governor Did Not Just Give $46 Million to the Tijuana River

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By MacKenzie Elmer Verified
| Voice of San Diego Verified
Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped a confusing press release Thursday that made it seem like the Tijuana River sewage crisis was getting $46 million in state funding. Media outlets nationwide jumped on the news. Except that wasn’t the case at all. Newsom was merely announcing that the State Water Resources Control Board was now accepting applications for a piece of a $46 million pot designated to help clean up contaminated cross-border rivers.
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Environment Report: Could the Tijuana River Help Get Arizona More Water?

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By MacKenzie Elmer Verified
| Voice of San Diego Verified
Arizona is desperate for water. So much so that its taxpayers are willing to invest in treating Tijuana’s sewage so it’s drinkable. How would that help Arizona? The state would ask Mexico for some of its Colorado River water in exchange. That’s a plan proposed by EPCOR, a private Canadian water utility.
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