EPA's U.S.-Mexico Border Facilities Construction Program enables communities in the Border Region, defined as 100 kilometers north and south of the US-Mexico border, to design and construct infrastructure projects that provide safe drinking water and wastewater collection and treatment. The lack of safe drinking water directly impacts public health in the region while inadequate sanitation and treatment facilities impact shared and transboundary rivers and coastal waters and threaten the public health and ecosystems of the region. EPA's program supports infrastructure development in Border communities through funding of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC)-administered Project Development and Assistance Program (PDAP) and the North American Development Bank (NADB)-administered Border Environment Infrastructure Fund (BEIF). These programs have made substantial progress to date in providing safe and affordable drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in the Border Region.
 
Through the U.S.-Mexico Border Facilities Construction Program, communities build and improve drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. Many households in the communities receive drinking water or wastewater service for the first time. These measures, additional homes served by improvements in water services, track the number of existing households that receive first-time service by connecting to safe drinking water and to adequate wastewater treatment systems as a result of EPA-supported infrastructure projects. Additional household connections are reported when infrastructure projects have completed construction and are operational.

For information about the U.S.-Mexico Border Program, go to http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/index.html
 
More specific information regarding U.S.-Mexico Border Infrastructure projects can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/infrastructure/index.html
 




Linkages to Strategic Plan:

EPA Strategic Plan Goal 4 Objective: 4.2.4 - Sustain and Restore the U.S. Mexico Border Environmental Health. See: http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/plan/2006/goal_4.pdf
 

One goal of the U.S.-Mexico Border Program is to provide protection of people in the U.S.-Mexico border area from health risks by increasing the number of homes connected to potable water supply and wastewater collection and treatment systems. EPA is addressing this through financial assistance for new infrastructure and technical assistance. Data is typically reported later in fiscal year.

 
One goal of the U.S.-Mexico Border Program is to provide protection of people in the U.S.-Mexico border area from health risks by increasing the number of   existing homes connected to potable water supply and wastewater collection and treatment systems. EPA is addressing this through financial assistance for new infrastructure and technical assistance. Data is typically reported later in fiscal year.