On February 21, 2008, Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund released What A Waste! (pdf) . Close to 3,000 Clean Water Action members participated in our survey, indicating they want curbside recycling and would be willing to help pay for it. Our recommendations to the City are clear - establish a city-wide curbside recycling program now and work with groups like Clean Water Action to resolve stormwater issues in the City.

Evidence from decades of scientific scrutiny has overcome skepticism that mankind can alter the climate of the Earth. In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) issued a scientifica assessment, concluding, "There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last fifty years is attributable to human activities."

In this report, we:

Releases of untreated or partially treated sewage and industrial wastes threaten our water, beaches, health and overall quality of life.

Get the report, October 2001 (pdf, 139 KB)

by Harry Vogel, Executive Director, Loon Preservation Committee
of the Audubon Society of New Hampshire

Background

Methyl mercury is one of the most toxic and biologically active forms of mercury and is readily taken up by fish, loons, other wildlife, and humans. Significant exposure of wildlife to mercury is almost exclusively from the consumption of methyl mercury in fish. On many lakes in New Hampshire, fish mercury levels are higher than those thought to cause impaired reproduction in loons (Barr 1986).