Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz has been promoting the local binational Park project and his travels. He recently traveled to Mexico City as well as San Antonio, along with ambassadors from Mexico. Sian says the support they've gotten is greatly appreciated, but what their project really needs is big money, namely the time that comes from Washington. He spoke today about the current focus of the project.

Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz: "The main focus now for us for this project is to conserve water to allow more water to remain in the river and this entails removing the colonial cane and the salt cedar because those are very inefficient water users there really no purpose for them. They're invasive species so we need to remove them so we'll allow more water in the river and of course we are cells here in the city and we need to conserve every drop."

Saenz went on to say that the city is committed to pursuing a secondary emergency water source. The plan to have a working session on September 8 at Tammy you more information will be provided after that meeting.