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Dirty water : one man's fight to clean up one of the world's most polluted bays / Bill Sharpsteen.

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Dirty Water is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollution in Santa Monica Bay--and won. The story begins in 1985, when many scientists considered the bay to be one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. The...

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Main Author: Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Series:Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment.
Subjects:
Bennett, Howard, > 1929-
Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
Sewage disposal in the ocean > Environmental aspects > California > Santa Monica Bay.
Marine pollution > California > Santa Monica Bay > Prevention.
Santa Monica Bay Region (Calif.) > Environmental conditions.
Environmental policy > California > Santa Monica Bay Region.
Environmentalists > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
High school teachers > United States > Biography.
Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ecology
Environmental policy
Environmentalists
High school teachers
Marine pollution > Prevention
Political activists
Sewage disposal in the ocean > Environmental aspects
California > Santa Monica Bay Region
Pacific Ocean > Santa Monica Bay
United States
Biographies.
History.

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