Ah, swimming in the Salton Sea. Swimming in the septic tank of Mexico. When a person swims in the cesspool they are bound to have the ingredients infiltrate their every orifice. The aromatic wafting ever clings to their aura and soul. Flying over the Salton Sea is a truly unforgettable experience after swimming in the cooling waters of the cesspool sea. It is truly an unforgettable experience. Swimming in the sea in the 1950’s. Flying over it in the 1970’s. In the film clips on you tube the colors seems to be muted. They do not capture the intense and vibrant hues of the green and brown oil slicks over the waters. Yes, We’ve given Mexico fresh clean Colorado River drinking water and they’ve given us sewage.

To bring fresh ocean water to the Salton Sea, they would just follow existing pathways. The Alamo River starts near Mexicali. It flows through Holtville and down hill to the Salton Sea. The predominate trenching would follow the All American Canal from Yuma, AZ to Calexico, CA, about 50 miles. Then cleaning up the existing old Colorado River basin from the Sea of Cortez to Yuma. For over 70 years people have been talking about revitalizing the Salton Sea. Yet, year after year Mexico keeps dumping sewage into the sea.

The big global money companies want people to believe that the Salton Sea is filled by the agricultural field runoff. They want people to believe that the pollution comes from the field chemicals running off into the drainage ditches. The farmers are only allowed a small finite amount of water to water the cultivated fields. Much of that water escapes through evapo-transpiration of the plants. Some of the water percolates through the ground past the root zones of the plants.

Water is precious in the deserts. There can not be any room for errors in the calculations. The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) meters out the water very carefully. The farmers order the water by the amount of acre feet of water they project the plants will need. The IID then calculates how many inches the flood gates need to be opened for the proper length of time to accurately give the farmers the ordered number of acre feet of water onto the fields. These operations are closely monitored and documented. For what the IID charges the farmers for water, the farmers cannot afford to waste water. What about rain? It’s a desert. The Imperial county gets less than two inches of rain per year. That ground is very dry and very thirsty. Yes, there is some runoff.

So, where does The Salton Sea get almost all of it’s water? There are two rivers coming from Mexicali to the Salton Sea. The first is the Alamo River. It flows from the east of Mexicali through Holtville to the Salton Sea. The main source of Mexican Salton Sea sewage is from the New River. It flows west out of Mexicali to the Salton Sea. Both of these rivers can be considered open sewage pits running directly from Mexicali, Mexico to the Salton Sea, Southern California. That’s why the Salton Sea is euphemistically called “Mexico’s Septic Tank,” cesspool or sewage pit. Call it what you want. It’s still a stinking mess of sewage entering our country from Mexico.

That is California. We are in Texas. Why is this important to us? We have similar issues here in Texas. Every community along the Rio Grande River produces sewage. Where is that waste sewage being dumped? In the video they talk about the Salton Sea drying up. All over the world, reclaimed sewage waste water is being used to water golf courses, fill lakes, returned to the rivers and to water agricultural crops. When a person goes to their local chain grocery stores to buy vegetables and melons, where is much of that produce grown? Often times the produce in our local grocery stores will say “Product of Mexico.” Where do you think they get the water to water those watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. Your guess would be correct- reclaimed sewage water. We have major cities in our state that want to pump waste sewage into our aquifers. How is that sewage going to affect our drinking water? Every Community constantly deals with the problems of cross contamination of sewage and drinking water.

When a Licensed Back-Flow tester “accidentally” connects their “Potable-Water” gauges up to a “Reclaimed-Water” system, the gauges are forever contaminated. The gauges can never again be used to test “potable-water” systems. The gauges cannot be sanitized, sterilized or cleaned to be used on “potable-water” sources. The gauges’ serial number is recorded by governmental agencies. The gauges must be identified as for use on “reclaimed-water” only, and generally it is required to paint the gauges purple. At this point the Tester is out of pocket for about a thousand dollars or more for NEW gauges suitable for “Potable-Water” testing. The gauges must be tested and certified every year. The government takes cross contamination very serious. Yet, we are consuming produce grown in countries that are openly known for using sewage waste water for growing commercial agricultural produce. And, many of these countries are growing these agricultural products fertilized by bio-solids sewage waste, i.e. “Sewage Sludge.”

All these stories in the videos above are about PFAS chemicals in the sewage sludge. PFAS chemicals are only one group of chemicals contaminating our food chain. Several decades ago tests were done on fish in lakes used as fresh water reservoirs. The sewage water is pumped back into the lakes. Whatever drugs and chemicals your neighbor uses is eventually excreted out of the body and into the sewage system. What the researchers discovered was that the fish in the reservoirs contained many of the same chemicals found in the neighbor’s excrement. Psychotropic drugs where especially puzzling. They found fish with psychotropic drugs including holdol medications in their systems. The drugs are micronized and passed through the filtration system back into the lakes. The micronized drugs are then easily absorbed into the fish. People eat the fish and the process starts all over again in a continuous looping cycle.

Bio-hazard wastes from operating rooms, Bio-Labs, chemo-labs, mortuaries, etc., legal and illegal dumping of industrial chemicals wind up in the sewage treatment plants and our fresh water reservoirs. Everything that goes into sewage treatment plants and the storm drains wind up in the freshwater reservoirs and the sewage sludge. The chemicals often never go away. They just change forms and stay in the looping cycle of the water usage. Now stop and think about all that treated & untreated raw sewage dumped onto the agricultural fields fertilizing and watering the watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce that show up in our grocers from places like Mexico.