New data on the conditions of the sewage-laced Tijuana River confirms that polluted water substantially affects air quality. Researchers said the findings strongly validate long-dismissed concerns residents have raised.

“This study reveals a direct airborne pollutant exposure pathway — from contaminated rivers into the air we breathe,” said Kim Prather, one of the study’s authors and a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “For the first time, we’ve shown that poor water quality can profoundly degrade air quality, exposing entire communities to toxic gases and other pollutants."

Scientists from UC Riverside, San Diego State University and the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research also contributed to the in the pee

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