http://www.nrcm.org/issue_cleanwaters.asp – Cleaner rivers lead to healthier water, better fishing, and over all cleaner towns. Having a clean river to me is a big deal because where I live (cherryfield), use to have a very dirty river where the blueberry plants would dump blueberry waste into the river and all the wildlife died. That since has changed, but some towns still use their rivers as a dumping site.
Just a small group of locals turned that around and the salmon and fish population is slowly growing back to its origins.
http://www.nrcm.org/issue_penobscot.asp – This kind of stems off my first topic, but more in depth. The penobscot river is one of Maine’s most important rivers and feeds to a lot of other rivers in Maine. Dirty water in the penobscot river could lead to a decline in:
Fish
Lobster
Birds
And possibly even more. Fishing lobster is a big part of Maine culture and if lobster were to move from the ocean of maine, that would put a lot of hard working families out of jobs.
