Disposición de efluentes de Tijuana una solución transfronteriza

Abstract

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the North American Development Bank (NADB) and the Tijuana State Commission of Public Services (CESPT) carried out a conceptual study for the disposal of the city of Tijuana’s treated wastewater generated at the Tijuana river basin. The study included the assessment of several alternatives for this disposal with the purpose of meeting the needs of the public human health and the environmental protection. The whole work was based on binational treaties and regulations due to the cross‐border characteristics of the case in question. The study included the selection of conveyance alternatives and final disposal sites, and a multicriteria analysis that addressed technical, economic and environmental aspects for the final assessment. This work relied on a decision‐making tool for the adoption of the most convenient alternative.