A new study has found that pollutants in the Tijuana River, which carries untreated sewage from Tijuana into the Pacific Ocean where it ends up on San Diego beaches, are also being released in the air as fine particles that can travel for miles.
Samples from air and water along the coast from Tijuana, Mexico, to La Jolla, California, revealed that ocean aerosols contained illicit drugs—including enough to make a fish addicted and have withdrawals—drug byproducts produced from urine, as well as chemicals from tires and personal care products, researchers from UC San Diego said in a study released on May 28 and published in the journal Science Advances….