Overview
- CESPT shut off potable water to 691 neighborhoods in Tijuana and Playas de Rosarito at 12:00 a.m. on January 8 for 54 hours of work plus about 36 hours of network recovery.
- Officials said service will return zone by zone starting around January 10–11 and urged residents to ration stored water and monitor CESPT updates.
- The project replaces 250 meters of 54-inch pipe on a decades-old section dating to 1982, with an investment of roughly 50 million pesos to reduce future failures.
- Households stocked containers and planned for essential use of about 20 liters per person per day, adjusting cleaning and cooking routines to stretch reserves.
- Laundromats reported fewer customers and short-term closures despite cistern supplies, while water-purification plants saw higher demand and some businesses weighed trucked-water purchases as pipa prices rise during cuts.