When potable water had to be trucked in and septic tanks were the only option for wastewater treatment for the Leyes de Reforma community in Playas de Rosarito, Mexico, the city’s wastewater treatment officials believed they would have no trouble getting support from community members to build a new facility. They were wrong.
“Everybody opposed the plant,” says Rigo Laborin, president of Mexican construction company Laval Tijuana, who helped design the new plant in collaboration with WesTech. “They wanted a sewer system, but they didn’t want a wastewater treatment plant.” Community members eventually saw the benefits a plant could have, and
