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Mexico’s water management history

• Secretaria de Fomento y Colonización ,1877 • Dirección de Aguas, Tierras y Colonización, 1917 • Comisión Nacional de Irrigación, 1926 • Secretaría de Recursos Hidráulicos, 1946 Water Quality Management in the River Watershed: • Secretaría de Agricultura y Recursos Hidráulicos, an overview of Mexican Local, State and Federal resource 1976 management agencies • Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca (1994‐2000) • Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (2000‐Present) Oscar Romo ©

Runoff Tijuana Municipal Agencies

MunicipalMunicipal Government Government Drinking • Municipal Secretariat of Urban Development Water • Municipal Secretariat of Social Development • State Government Wastewater Municipal Direction of Environmental Treatment Protection • Metropolitan Planning Institute Aqueducts and Dams

Federal Government National Waters

Baja State Agencies Federal Agencies

• State Water Commission • Ministry of the Environment and Natural • State Water Commission for Public Services Resources • State Environmental Protection Agency – National Water Commission • State Secretariat for Urban Development • Ministry of Social Development • State Secretariat for Social Developmnet • Ministry of Foreign Affairs – International Boundary and Water Commission, Mexican Section

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CNA Regionalization Watershed Council

Mexico’s Water management Challenges U.S./Mexico Agreements

1) Insufficient potable water distribution, and sewer lines • 1848 Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty • 1853 Gadsden Treaty (Temporary IBWC) 2) Waste water treatment • 1882 Convention (Temporary IBWC) • 1905 Banco Convention (Colorado and Grand Rivers) 3) Erosion and deforestation • 1944 Water Treaty

4) Construction, maintenance and operation of hydraulic infrastructure. • 1983 La Paz Agreement • 1989 Minute 279 5) Disaster prevention • 1994 NAFTA (environmental side agreements) – NadBank 6) Underground water conservation – BECC – CEC 7) Investment needs

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Hydroregionalization of the U.S.‐ The U.S. Border Region Mexico Border

NAFTA Organizations

• Oldest binational organization in the America’s • Border Environment Cooperation Commission • Build and supervises border crossings, and • North American Development Bank environmental infrastructure projects for border communities • Commission for Environmental Cooperation • Manages and deliver water from shared resources

TRW Bi‐national challenges

• creek crosses the international • IRWM Plan Vision boundary 4 times • An integrated, balanced, and consensus‐based • All the water falling in the northern section of approach to ensuring the long‐term the TRW flows into Mexico before returning to sustainability of the Region's water supply, the U.S. at the TRV water quality, and natural resources. • Water rights • Water scarcity

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IRWM Plan Goals

• IRWM Plan Mission • Improve the reliability and sustainability of • To develop and implement an integrated strategy regional water supplies. to guide the Region toward protecting, managing, • and developing reliable and sustainable water Protect and enhance water quality. resources. Through a stakeholder‐driven and • Protect and enhance our watersheds and adaptive process, the Region can develop natural resources. solutions to water‐related issues and conflicts that are economically and environmentally • Promote and support sustainable integrated preferable, and that provide equitable resource water resource management. protection for the entire Region.

IRWM Plan Objectives Opportunities

• Objective A ‐ Encourage integrated solutions to water management issues and conflicts • Improve and maintain coordination with Mexico’s • Objective B ‐ Maximize stakeholder and community involvement and stewardship water management agencies • Objective C ‐ Effectively obtain, manage, and assess water resources data and information • Support legislative work: • Objective D ‐ Further the scientific and technical foundation of water management – Local: City Council • Objective E ‐ Develop and maintain a diverse mix of water resources • Objective F ‐ Construct, operate, and maintain a reliable infrastructure system – Regional: State Assembly • Objective G ‐ Enhance natural hydologic processes to reduce the negative effects of hydromodification and flooding – Bi‐national: Federal Congress and Senate • Objective H ‐ Effectively reduce sources of pollutants and environmental stressors • Elevate TRW issues at the Federal level • Objective I ‐ Protect, restore, and maintain habitat and open space • Objective J ‐ Optimize water‐based recreational opportunities • Expand outreach efforts • Objective K ‐ Effectively address climate change through greenhouse gas reduction, adaptation, or mitigation • Innovative solutions • Trans‐boundary resource conservation efforts

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