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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is deploying $46 million in voter-approved funding to help clean up the Tijuana River and the New River at the California-Mexico border. The Tijuana River is one of the nation's worst and longest-running environmental crises. Since 2018, more than 100 billion gallons of raw sewage laden with industrial chemicals and trash have poured into the river. The U.S. and Mexico signed an agreement last year to clean up the longstanding problem by upgrading wastewater plants. The California funding will come from Proposition 4, a $10 billion bond measure approved in 2024 to fund water, climate, wildfire and natural resource projects across the state.