Rep. Juan Vargas akuti ali ndi chiyembekezo pazomwe dziko la Mexico likuyesetsa kuthana ndi kuipitsidwa kwa zimbudzi.

Fungo la zimbudzi linadzaza mpweya pamalo opangira madzi ku South Bay International Water Treatment Plant kumpoto kwa malire a US ndi Mexico.

Ntchito zokonza ndi kukulitsa zikuyenda kuwirikiza kawiri kuchuluka kwake kuchoka pa magaloni 25 miliyoni patsiku kufika pa 50 miliyoni, ndi mtengo wamtengo wapatali wa $ 610 miliyoni. Boma lapereka pafupifupi theka la ndalamazo, ndipo ndalama zina zikadalipobe.

Koma Rep. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, adati ngakhale chomera chokulirapo cha South Bay sichingathe kuyendetsa zimbudzi za Tijuana pachokha.

Vargas adati akumva kuti ali ndi chiyembekezo pambuyo paulendo waposachedwa wa nthumwi ku Mexico. Akuluakulu kumeneko adati kukonzanso kwa San Antonio de los Buenos Wastewater Treatment Plant kudzatha kumapeto kwa September.

"Ndikofunikira kwambiri kuti amalize ntchitoyi," adatero Vargas.

Nkhani zamakina zasiya madzi ambiri omwe akuyenda mumsikawo osakonzedwa asanalowe m'nyanja, malinga ndi bungwe loyang'anira zamadzi ku California Regional Water Quality Control Board. Malo okonzedwansowo akuyembekezeka kuthira madzi okwana magaloni 18 miliyoni patsiku. Pafupifupi magaloni 40 miliyoni amadzi onyansa ndi madzi a Mtsinje wa Tijuana amapita ku chomeracho tsiku lililonse, malinga ndi lipoti la 2021.

Mu 2022, bungwe la Environmental Protection Agency linati kukonzanso malo opangira mankhwala kumbali zonse za malire kungathandize kuchepetsa madzi otayira omwe sanatsukidwe omwe amapita ku Pacific Ocean ndi 80%.

Magombe ena aku South Bay atsekedwa kwa masiku opitilira 950 chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa mabakiteriya. Atsogoleri am'maboma apempha akuluakulu azaumoyo m'boma ndi boma kuti afufuze zathanzi zomwe zimakhudzana ndi kuipitsako.

San Diego County, Port of San Diego ndi mizinda ya San Diego ndi Imperial Beach alengeza zadzidzidzi zakomweko ndikuyitanitsa ndalama zowonjezera kukonza chomera cha South Bay. Mameya m'chigawo chonsecho apempha Gov. Gavin Newsom ndi Purezidenti Joe Biden kuti alengeze zadzidzidzi m'boma ndi boma.

Vargas adati olamulira a Purezidenti Andrés Manuel López Obrador asunga lonjezo lawo lokonza chomera cha San Antonio de los Buenos. Anati Purezidenti wosankhidwa a Claudia Sheinbaum adatsimikizira atsogoleri aku US kuti apitiliza kuthana ndi vutoli.

"Ndimamva bwino," adatero Vargas. "Aka kanali koyamba kunena izi mwina zaka 20."

Kuphatikiza pa ntchito yomanga malo opangira zimbudzi, m'pofunikanso kulimbikitsa kuyang'anira khalidwe la madzi, zomwe zingathe kuyang'anira deta mu nthawi yeniyeni.