Doug Liden
Environmental Engineer
EPA
About Doug Liden
Doug Liden has spent over two decades at the EPA developing US and Mexico jointly financed wastewater, drinking water, and storm water projects in Mexico’s southwest border region under EPA’s Border Water Infrastructure Program (BWIP). He also manages EPA-funded research related to water quality monitoring, plume tracking, and erosion in the Tijuana watershed and is EPA’s technical lead on the USMCA- and BWIP-funded wastewater projects in the Tijuana/San Diego region. Doug spent the last three years working in the Embassy in Mexico City and at the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana under the State Department’s Embassy Science Fellowship program. Doug has taught classes in Costa Rica on ocean desalination for the Ministry of the Environment. Before joining EPA’s border team, Doug wrote federal wastewater discharge permits for sewage treatment plants, ocean desalination plants, coal and copper mines, tuna canneries, papermills, oil refineries, and power plants.