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

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The work Dirty water : one man's fight to clean up one of the world's most polluted bays represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

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

Title remainder

one man's fight to clean up one of the world's most polluted bays

Statement of responsibility

Bill Sharpsteen

Creator

• Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954-

Subject

• Bennett, Howard, 1929-
• Bennett, Howard, 1929-
• Biography
• California -- Santa Monica Bay Region
• Ecology
• Electronic books
• Environmental policy
• Environmental policy -- California | Santa Monica Bay Region
• Environmentalists
• Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography
• High school teachers
• High school teachers -- United States -- Biography
• History
• Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
• Marine pollution -- California | Santa Monica Bay -- Prevention
• Marine pollution -- Prevention
• NATURE -- Ecology
• Pacific Ocean -- Santa Monica Bay
• Political activists
• Political activists -- United States -- Biography
• Santa Monica Bay Region (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions
• Sewage disposal in the ocean -- Environmental aspects
• Sewage disposal in the ocean -- Environmental aspects -- California | Santa Monica Bay
• United States
• Bennett, Howard, 1929-

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment