Mexicali Tops Mexico City in Pollution KESQ.com
go to original September 25, 2013

By all measures Mexicali is a well-to-do city, boasting a large middle class, low unemployment and a much higher average income than elsewhere in Mexico. Located on the border of the U.S., near Arizona and California, it has proven to be a popular hub for major companies - Nestle and Mitsubishi are just two of the many multinationals with plants there. All this proves the success of Mexicali in moving from an agricultural economy to an industrial one. But while the growth was great, the environmental management was not and the city also has the worst air pollution in the country. Other than the industrial industry, it is also home to several gas-fire power stations and has to contend with dust from the surrounding desert. (Newscom/RTR)

MEXICO CITY - Move over, Mexico City, a think tank study says the country's most damaging air pollution is in the border city of Mexicali.

The nation's capital has long had a reputation for smog, but in small particle pollution it registered in about the middle of large Mexican cities studied.

But Mexicali, across from Calexico, California, has excessive dust that gave it the highest per-capita rate of pollution-related premature deaths, hospital and doctor visits.

Small particle pollution was above recommended limits in almost all of the 12 Mexican cities over 500,000 inhabitants in the study by the Mexican Institute on Competitiveness.

The study released Tuesday also found high rates of health problems caused by air pollution in the central city of Cuernavaca, and the northern cities of Monterrey and Tijuana.

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