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U.S. water becoming 'swimmable'
Rv JAMES PHILLIPS
WASHINGTON (AP) - Six years and
been later, America's waters are getting
cleaner.
It was in 1972 that Congress passed the Clean Water Act, setting a national goal to make the nation's rivers, lakes and streams "fishable and swimmable."
Passage of the act triggered an immediate assault on the scrub, garbage, human and industrial wastes and asserted filth of civilization that turn clean water-
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency estimates that governments and industry have spent $74.3 billion on water pollution controls since 1973. Billion more will be spent in the next decade, and the touhest work remains to be done.
But now, Atlantic salmon are returning to the Connecticut River to spawn, where they haven't appeared since the mid-1980s. The fish come from oil spills no longer are reported on the Detroit River, which once was considered a dead river but now supports populations of walleys, like the one depicted here.
THE LOWER Tombigbee River in Alabama once was known as "fish kill capital of Alabama." But no major fish kills occur. The Council on Environmental Quality says.
The Potomac River near Washington is showing signs of revitalization. Once clogged with silt, sewage and organisms that cause disease, it is now protected by a local ordinance that prohibits anyone from the water under threat with a $500 fine.
BUT THE river is responding so well to cleanup efforts that the chairman of a five-state commission coordinating anti-pollution efforts proposed a "s swim-in" to dramatize the swimming trench, locally police command the swim-in, citing the old ordinance.
The EPA has a long list of other successes. Among them are cleanliness of Pearl Harbor, the Williamette River in Oregon, the Androscoggin River in Maine, French
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"WE HAVE shown success—and the people want more," says Thomas C. Jering, EPA assistant administrator for water and waste management.
But future success is likely to come more slowly, says Jorling.
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Most of the initial cleanup efforts have related to sewage and the construction of municipal and industrial treatment plants. Before they are discharged into waterways,
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Treatment technology focused on with-
drawing the oxygen-demand pollutants
FUTURE EFFORTS will focus on toxic chemicals that until now have suffered from "inadequate attention," says Jorling. Many of them are stored in the waterways only in extremely small amounts, some, such as chloroform and benzene are known to cause cancer in humans.
JORLING ALSO says the EPA must focus on major urban-industrial areas where
High Ball
bacteria levels often are hazardous,
especially in streams where the flow during
the summer often is inadequate to dilute
human or livestock waste loads.
The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, estimates another $174 billion will have to be spent by government and industry by 1984 to achieve the fashile and swimable goals in the Clean Water Act.
It questioned whether the expense was justified.
JORLING, HOWEVER, says there is no sign the people are lessening in their support.
"We don't see any waning of the people's support in cleaning up the nation's water,"
In part, he says, the support comes because "people can see actual changes in society."
No one expects the nation to meet the goal of making all waters swimable and fishable by 1983. But, Jorling emphasizes, "there are a lot of waters in the country that are already there," waters that once were polluted.
LONDON (AP)—The dollar pulled out of its tailspin on the world's money markets yesterday, but currency dealers said the recovery was due mostly to technical factors and were reluctant to long-curve tumble in the dollar's fortunes.
The price of gold fell $3 in London to
$422.45, but gained $1 in Zurich. Europe's other major bullion center, hitting
$423.87.
Dollar's woes continue
The dramatic nose dive of the dollar is hitting American tourists, whose vacation money in dwindling while still in their pockets, and employees of U.S. companies abroad, who will be pressing for increases in cost-of-living expenses.
salary," said an American woman who works in Amsterdam and is paid in U.S. dollars. "Now instead of eating out, I eat at a restaurant where I raisin bread sandwiches to work."
The dollar dipped to a new low of 1.7220
West German marks in morning trading
in Frankfurt. But by the end of the day,
climbed to 1.7365 marks, up from
Monday's closing rate of 1.7285 marks,
the previous all-time low.
"THERE'S NO conscious change in the market," a foreign exchange dealer said in Frankfurt.
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The British pound sterling, which has improved 15 percent against the dollar so far this year, fell back a bit. It finished at $2.087, down from $2.990 Monday.
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sua films
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Thursday, Nov. 2
Ingmar Bergman:
Films of Joris Ivens:
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THE SEVENTH SEAL
RAIN
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NEW EARTH
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Higher Education Week
Friday, November 3, 1978 Finals, Jayhawk College Quiz Bowl, Forum Room, Kansas Union, 8:00
Saturday, November 4, 1978 HOPE Award Presentation, pregame KU vs. Nebraska football game
HOPE Award Finalists' Reception, post game Centennial Room, Kansas Union, public invited
"Crisis in Education—1978",
speech by Jonathan Kozol, author-educator winner of 1968 National Book Award for Death At An Early Age, Forum Room, Kansas Union, 7:30 public invited, free admission
Sunday, November 5, 1978—
Higher Education Week Banquet Dr. Stephen K. Bailey, featured speaker, Professor of Education and Social Policy, Harvard University and President of National Academy of Education; presentation of Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award, Higher Education Leadership Prize and Higher Education Service Awards; Ballroom, Kansas Union, 6:30, admission $3.15 student. $5.15 non-student, public invited
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