Swimming in One of the World’s Most Toxic Beaches: Tijuana Playa’s Toxic Reality 

I took a risky swim in Tijuana Playa, one of the most toxic and contaminated beaches in the world. The beach has long been saturated with pollution, mostly from cross-border sewage and a failing treatment plant leaking untreated water into the Tijuana River Estuary. Every day, millions of gallons of contaminated water carrying stormwater runoff, raw sewage, harmful chemicals, and trash traverse the U.S.-Mexico border through the Tijuana River Watershed and flow out into the Pacific Ocean. The Tijuana River was just named one of the top ten most endangered rivers in the United States by American Rivers
In this eye-opening video, I reveal the shocking state of Tijuana’s infrastructure, which is crumbling under the pressure of a massive population boom. With broken wastewater treatment plants and a projected $5 billion needed to fix the problem, the current budget of just $50 million falls alarmingly short. Discover why this environmental crisis affects not just Tijuana, but also the beaches of San Diego, and what must be done to prevent a catastrophe.