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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Colección:Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment.
Temas:
Bennett, Howard, > 1929-
Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sewage disposal in the ocean > Environmental aspects > California > Santa Monica Bay.
Marine pollution > California > Santa Monica Bay > Prevention.
Environmental policy > California > Santa Monica Bay Region.
Environmentalists > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
High school teachers > United States > Biography.
Eaux usées > Évacuation dans la mer > Aspect de l'environnement > Californie > Santa Monica, Baie de.
Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Enseignants (Enseignement secondaire) > États-Unis > Biographies.
NATURE > Ecology.
Ecology
Environmental policy
Environmentalists
High school teachers
Marine pollution > Prevention
Political activists
Sewage disposal in the ocean > Environmental aspects
Biografie
Umweltschützer
Santa Monica Bay Region (Calif.) > Environmental conditions.
California > Santa Monica Bay Region
Pacific Ocean > Santa Monica Bay
United States
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 insecticide DDT covered portions of the sea floor. Los Angeles discharged partially treated sewage into its waters. Lifeguards came down with mysterious illnesses. And Howard Bennett happily swam in it every morning. By accident, Bennett learned that Los Angeles had applied for a.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 263 p.).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520944756
0520944755
1282453475
9781282453470

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