Environmental and Health Concerns Don’t Stop at U.S.-Mexican Border
03/05 at 11:56 PM
Environmental and Health Concerns Don’t Stop at U.S.-Mexican Border
by Kari Lydersen February 24, 2010
....At the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego, scientists described how the Los Laureles Canyon, which stretches from Tijuana to the San Diego wetlands, is ravaged by pollution. This causes public health problems for impoverished Tijuana residents and environmental problems that affect migratory birds and people on both sides of the border. Hiram Sarabia of the UCSD NIEHS Superfund Research Program describes the canyon as an “urban observatory” that mirrors thousands like it along the 2,000-mile length of the border. Debris, wastewater, and contaminated dust and soil from a large swath of Tijuana funnel into the canyon streams, which ultimately empty into the Tijuana estuary and then the Pacific Ocean on the U.S. side of the border. (Read More)
by Keith Pezzoli in (1) Comments • Permalink
There are no comments at this time.