Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, the governor of Baja California, supervised the progress of the project at Colonia El Monte in Tijuana in order to bring potable water to the community. In addition, following the principles of the governments of the Fourth Transformation to mainly focus on those who have the least, the governor spoke with residents of the community in order to comprehensively address the issues in this neighborhood.

"This is one of those neighborhoods we have said are a priority in the comprehensive plan we are developing in the state government, where we first bring water then pavement. And we are going to do this with support from the federal government and the municipal government,” the governor pointed out.

This project will allow 113 homes to change from a communal faucet to home faucets and it will benefit 418 inhabitants. In the project's second phase, they administration will work to bring a drainage network and, through the Urbanization Council and SIDURT, they will review the requirements in order to pave roads, Ávila Olmeda added.

This project is part of the PROAGUA 2024 federal program and it required an investment of $3,337,361 pesos, of which 36% came from the federation and 64% came from the state, the director of the State Commission of Public Utilities of Tijuana, Jesús García Castro, said.

The governor emphasized that this government is working hand in hand with communities to address all of their needs, starting with the most essential ones. In addition, there is a good relationship between upcoming federal administrations and the municipalities to work together in order to benefit everyone.

Regarding requests for drainage, transportation, green areas, and building schools, the governor promised to review these requests and address them, starting with the most important ones.

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