Zertuche Diaz was born in 1923 and died in 1991 in the port city of Ensenada, in the Mexican state of Baja California on the Pacific coast, about 110 km 65 miles South of the country’s border with the United States. She is mentioned as the first woman to graduate from the UNAM school of engineering in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "Ensenada Population Sewer Project". She was the 12th woman to earn a civil engineering degree in the country, and probably the first engineer in Ensenada. She was a founding faculty member of the Autonomous University of Baja California, UABC, established in 1957, and its School of marine science, founded in 1960. Zertuche Diaz worked for the Secretariat of hydraulic resources, where she became the main developer for the installation of Ensenada’s water infrastructure. The historical problem of managing the city’s water resources has been difficult, because there are no rivers in the municipality. Its main source comes from underground water from the Maneadero Valley, and when it rains very heavily, the contours of the ground cause the formation of some streams. There are four reservoirs in the municipality that contribute to drinking water: hidden Lagoon, the Emilio Lopez Zamora dam fed by the Valle Verde Creek, the Hanson Lagoon located in the 1857 Constitution Park, and La Lagunita, North of the Chipres military air base. In the following years, Zertuche Diaz donated property land for the sports city and various University schools. She also founded the Baja California Professional Women’s Association, as well as the Ensenada Red Cross. · In 2014, Zertuche Diaz received the award "Forjadora de Baja California, or "Forger of Baja California", because her work allowed the development of a network of drinking water and sanitation in the city of Ensenada. At the same ceremony, Antonia Brenner from Tijuana, Maria Concepcion Lopez Vargas from Tecate, Maria Luisa Chabert Uriarte from Playa de Rosarito and Gloria Rosado Casares from Mexicali received the same tribute for their work in their respective regions. For each woman, on the wall of the women’s Counterfeiters room in the state legislature building, there is a picture of her face as well as a short biography. SOURCE https://amp.en.google-info.org/64453153/1/california-odha-zertuche-diaz.html