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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations.
Series	The Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment
	Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The swimmer -- The witness -- The coalition -- Squirp -- The press conference -- City hall -- The activist -- The second hearing -- The scientist -- The politician -- The brown ribbon -- Heal the bay -- The dirty toilet awards -- The decision -- Friend of the court -- Outsiders and insiders -- The 50 percent job.
Note	Print version record.
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.
Subject	Bennett, Howard, 1929-
	Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
	Bennett, Howard, 1929-
	Hyperion Water Treatment Facility (Los Angeles, Calif.) (OCoLC)fst01769824
	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.
	NATURE -- Ecology.
	Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
	Environmental policy. (OCoLC)fst00913250
	Environmentalists. (OCoLC)fst00913554
	High school teachers. (OCoLC)fst00956247
	Marine pollution -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst01009849
	Political activists. (OCoLC)fst01069192
	Sewage disposal in the ocean -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01113924
	California -- Santa Monica Bay Region. (OCoLC)fst01342966
	Pacific Ocean -- Santa Monica Bay. (OCoLC)fst01242596
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Sharpsteen, Bill, 1954- Dirty water. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520256606 (DLC) 2009003365 (OCoLC)310096800
ISBN	9780520944756 (electronic bk.)
	0520944755 (electronic bk.)

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