The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches,

The United States and Mexico on Thursday reached an agreement aimed at finding a permanent solution to a decades-long sewage crisis, in which Mexican sewage has flowed into the Tijuana River and across the U.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and his counterpart in Mexico, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, have signed a formal agreement to address and potentially solve the Tijuana River sewage crisis.