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tractors, and wastes from our sewers not only pollute the streams and rivers which carry them to the sea, but they also seep into the subsoil strata, endangering our wells and springs. This runoff also threatens the health of fish, birds, wild animals, and even humans living far down stream, or out on the oceans of the world.

Four tons of kingfish caught 20 miles off the coast of California had to be impounded recently because they contained too much DDT, a persistent chemical which does not break down on its journey to the sea from farms inland.

OTHER potentially harmful chemicals are

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