LA. Water Ways

摘要

Compared With Traffic, Crime, and celebrity felonies, dirty stormwater isn't the first problem most people associate with Los Angeles County. Yet billions of gallons of polluted stormwater contaminate the county's beaches every year, afflicting swimmers with infections and gastrointestinal illnesses. In 2008 NRDC sued the county for allowing this pollution to enter rivers and flow into coastal waters, and last year a federal court agreed that the county was violating the Clean Water Act.