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RAPPAHANNOCK county’s rivers and lakes are full of a lot more than water. Everything from plastic bottles and inner tubes to chemical and human waste go floating by.
Not all waste is bad. With a few exceptions, nature can recycle most of the byproducts of our modern civilization. However, when the amount of waste, or the rate of dumping any product, exceeds the capacity of the soil or water to absorb it, pollution results.
The National Geographic Society, in its new book, “As We Live and Breathe,” points out that pesticides don’t always stay where we want them. Pesticides and other toxic or harmful substances run with rain water off the land into rivers, which in turn deposit the poisons into the sea; and winds carry them literally everywhere on earth.
Wastes dumped into rivers far inland are endangering birds and fish many miles downstream and in our coastal waters. Even penguins in Antarctica and Eskimos in the arctic show traces of DDT in their bodies.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL
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