Mexico's newest export to the U.S. may be water.

[ironsides]

So much for that old adage: do not drink the water while in Mexico.


Mexico's newest export to the U.S. may be water.


SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mexico ships televisions, cars, sugar and medical equipment to the United States. Soon, it may be sending water north.
Western states are looking south of the border for water to fill drinking glasses, flush toilets and sprinkle lawns, as four major U.S. water districts help plan one of two huge desalination plant proposals in Playas de Rosarito, about 15 miles south of San Diego. Combined, they would produce 150 million gallons a day, enough to supply more than 300,000 homes on both sides of the border.
The plants are one strategy by both countries to wean themselves from the drought-prone Colorado River, which flows 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Sea of Cortez. Decades of friction over the Colorado, in fact, are said to be a hurdle to current desalination negotiations.

Mexico's newest export to US may be water - Yahoo! News

 

[Nuggler]

Not being familiar with the area, what percentage of the total number of homes in the area would 300,000 be?? Any idea?

BRB after I read the link.



So if they could create electricity with the salt, good idea.........................Sounds costly as proposed.

 

[bill barilko]

Mexican bottled water is delicious-widely available and cheap.

Often called Tehuacan (tay-wah-KAN) after the town where much is bottled it's purity and taste are unmatched in many countries that consider themselves more developed.

 

[petros]

Tehuacan...I had a bottle of that when dining at Chicken Eatsa.

 

[Johnnny]

Mexican Water isnt bad, it gives you the ****s for about 1-2 months and then after you can drink the river water in Oaxaca like i did