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(L) This aerial view shows a treated wastewater river heading to the Pacific Ocean near Real Del Mar in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on August 12, 2025. Despite the work of a wastewater treatment plant, residents in Mexico's Tijuana see no difference in the quality of the water running through the Tijuana River. "Nothing has changed. The smell is intense," says local resident Marino Castro, "the water is brown and cloudy". The river is the subject of a common projet with the United States, seeking to end a longstanding transboundary sewage crisis. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP) (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) US President Donald Trump takes part in a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images) / (Background) This aerial view shows sewage at the Endho dam, in Tepetitlan, Hidalgo state, Mexico on August 5, 2024. The Endho Dam, in the state of Hidalgo, is highly polluted as the Tula River, which receives sewage from Mexico City through the Central and the Eastern Discharge Tunnels, industrial waste from the Thermoelectric Plant, the Pemex Refinery, and other companies in the area, flows into it. (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP) (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump demands Mexico ‘take care of its water and sewage problem IMMEDIATELY,’ labeling it a ‘true threat’

In a somewhat ominous post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump accused Mexico of posing a cross-border sewage contamination issue hazardous to the United States, branding the nation a “true threat” to Texas and California residents due to its water and sewage problem.

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