SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- It’s in the water, it’s airborne and it's getting people sick.

The Tijuana River is not just a nuisance, it’s a health hazard, according to newly peer-reviewed findings published in the journal Science.

“This is the paper that will drop at 11 a.m. in Science, it is focusing on how river pollution is actually affecting air quality across all of San Diego,” said Kim Prather, a professor from UC San Diego in atmospheric science.

Scientists from UCSD’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography, in collaboration with SDSU and UC Irvine, have been studying the alarming hydrogen sulfide off-gassing from the toxic waste wafting from the untreated waste flowing from the city of Tijuana down the canyon into the city of Imperial Beach.

The new study found the smells from the was

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