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It has never involved fossils (inaudible)
although it is as old as this,

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there is no combustion, or exhaust.

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There is an explosion (inaudible)
pure and more powerful

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than the thrust of the
most sophisticated rocket,

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surfers are drawn by the power way.

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This power like the water and surf

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has a universal feel,

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Once land animals (ph),

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dolphins goes to return to the sea forever.
We (inaudible) drive with similar curving,

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and an innate joy to be
in the water perhaps

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because water is the original home
of all life the place of our birth,

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Yet the strongest evidence that we
once led up of quite(ph) a life is

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psychologically, the strong urge in
many of us to be near the water,

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and why over 50% of the U.S.
population lives

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within an hour\'s drive of the coastline.

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But there\'s trouble in paradise
one after another beaches

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are being turned into refuse pits(ph)
for the waste products of civilization,

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Our gateways to the ocean
are slamming shut(ph).

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Surfers worldwide the fiercely
independent by nature

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have come to the realization that
they must organize into groups

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and speak out on behalf of the sea,
for the sea cannot speak for itself.

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They are the keepers of the coast,

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and this is their story.

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Over seven tenths of the earth\'s surface

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is covered with water from space the continents
we live on look like tiny islands on an expensive

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(inaudible), All but three percent

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of the earth\'s water is salt water, and
it lies in our vast oceans and seas,

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Of the three percent which is
freshwater over two thirds is frozen

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in the polar ice caps and
glacial, All life on land

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is sustained by the remaining one half of
one percent much of which is circulated

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through what is known as the water cycle,

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Solar heat powered the cycle converting surface
liquid water to a vapor through evaporation,

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water vapor being one

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and less dense in the surrounding
area(ph), rises until it needs cooler

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which condense it back into liquid droplets
suspended in large accumulations known as cloud,

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when clouds over develop
water falls out of suspense

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in the form of rain or snow.

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Pulled(ph) by gravity water
drains to streams and rivers,

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which carry it back to the sea
or lakes and the cycle repeats,

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but where fonts(ph) and some cities exist,
water gap which carries with it Pesticides,

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Fertilizers, Animal feces
settled air pollution,

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cleaning compounds, oil
race(ph) and solid trash

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of every soil, the residue and waste
of civilization known as urban runoff.

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On a small street urban runoff
may only be a minor (inaudible),

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but when you multiply this 5000 of miles storm
each one dumping pollutants into our ocean,

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the problem becomes and
environmental (inaudible).

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[music]

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When polluted runoff reaches the
ocean, it doesn\'t simply disappear

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prevailing swells keep it pinned
under looted against the shore,

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where it lives waiting for us.

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Dr Pierce Flynn is the
executive director of

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the surf rider foundation a 27000
member environmental organization

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with chapters around the world.

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This kind of ocean pollution is happening all over in the world
last year in the United States alone over 2700 beaches were closed,

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because of land runoff
pollution just like this,

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Surfers are like canaries in a coal mine with
the very first ones to feel the effects,

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the fact E.P.A. has called us
the new indicator species.

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So what does it mean to be an indicator species,
umm… and these are waiting for us the (inaudible) up

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and over dead until they can be sure the problem, let
me tell you first in the meantime what infections,

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(inaudible) skin rashes, (inaudible) sick,

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stomach problems are all going to be symptoms that you and I
are going to experience every time we surf after it rains

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or near a storm drain, let me tell you folks,
I\'m tired of being a human guinea pig,

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how about you, now surfers are taking action.
Doheny beach, California, sits at the mouth of

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a storm drain system that drains 170
square miles of urbanized landscape,

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the 200 member Doheny long
boards surfing association

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has come up with an innovative restoration
project to save their surf break

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a project manager Bill Barnes.

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We known for a long time that this great has been our main source of pollution
to our beach are we surf, and no one seems to be doing anything about it

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and the same to recognize the
fact that it is a problem,

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so we decided to do something about it, we come up with a two stage
process one being returning what it was before which was a wetlands,

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and a lot higher up the creek we\'re going
to add a two stage filtering device

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to not only stop the pollution coming down, but pump it out
treated and returning and bring in the back side of the wetlands.

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The Army Corps of Engineers
has agreed to include

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the surface plan in their upcoming budget.
So now storm drain water

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will enter stage one, where large
particles we filtered out, stage two

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will filter even smaller particles,
If we\'re finally releasing the water

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into the restored wetlands, here nature takes
over by filtering out the remaining pollutants.

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In results is our (inaudible)
mother ocean, clean water.

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In the United States there
is no uniform water

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testing standard for beaches in fact the
E.P.A estimates that only six percent

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of the coastline is being monitored, so
the Surf rider foundation established

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a volunteer water testing program called the Blue
Water task force to draw attention to this problem.

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Six week of the project, here
we project and… (inaudible).

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In Corona Del Mar, California, marine science teacher and
lifeguard Mike Stark weather brought the Blue Water program

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into his high school classroom.
(inaudible).

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Over an eight week period
students tested the water

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at 15 of their local beaches,

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after collecting samples incubating them and
determining things like total coliform counts,

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the students presented their results to
the community at the Hard Rock Cafe.

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(inaudible). Three local beaches
failed to meet government standards.

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Probably the single most important
aspect the kids are walking away with

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their participation and their
awareness of their local environment

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uh… that\'s probably pristine in my mind
that they\'re know that it\'s active,

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it\'s not just a one time situation where in the classroom we\'re done
is testing I think it\'s going to carry on throughout their life.

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A corporate Grant has allowed Surf rider,

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to launch the Blue Water task force
on the East Coast currently 23 sites

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are being monitored
regularly by volunteers.

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When you blow on calm water ripples font, the
same thing happens at sea, when the strong winds

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of ocean storms blow for long periods
of time creating giant swell,

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these swells can travel thousands
of miles without losing energy

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until they reach shallow water, The
more shallow the water becomes

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the slower the speed of the wave the crust of
the wave with water is deeper travels faster

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and it eventually over takes the trough and fond
of it causing the way of to steepen and break,

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as is often the cause the
scientific explanation (inaudible)

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we comparison to the real thing,

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waves energy is released at an
average of just17000 watts per meter

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of coastline every second, The energy
released on the worlds beaches is equal

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to the world men for our fonts of
energy such is the power of the surf

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and how would is found,

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This loss of surf

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artificial barrier design to (inaudible)
energy of surf, before (inaudible)

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are being constructed all around the world in
misguided attempt to save your loading beaches

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are the create (inaudible)
as a result public beaches,

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especially surfing beaches are
vanished at environmental wave.

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I started in the early 50

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and (inaudible) new work there we surf and in the coast
(inaudible) cargo by the board, hey bill, (inaudible).

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[music]

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Endless summer the seminal surf film
produces in 1964 by film maker Bruce Brown,

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introduce the world, surfing unique culture

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it also transformed virtually unknowns
sport it one that today but over

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1.62 millians surfers
in the water annually.

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Now, there is new (inaudible) the world,

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but (inaudible) because harbor or a break
water development that must of hate.

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We known surfing spot killer
Dana once one of California,

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bets breaks was evolved in
to create small boat harber.

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As if we think of like California

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with (inaudible) 1000 miles of coastline
and if Yard up, the amount of coastline

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that are good surf spots you
(inaudible) up like ten miles

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so when they go and build a harbor or
a break water around some like that,

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it\'s just like a tragedy.

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The loss of surveyors

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was surprising to few were
and few were and breaks,

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In the movie Endless Summer the search was
for the perfect way, To day the searches

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for any weight at all,
and a small place on it.

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[sil.]

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Surf rider attorney Michelle Kremer

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coordinates a network of lawyers
from across the nations

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who offer their services to the
foundation on a pro bono basis.

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Once I graduated from law school, I wanted to use what I learned in
law school, and use it to tax something that I live into (inaudible)

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with I have a lot of
respect for in that ocean.

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In addition to overseeing legal issues that
surf writers national office in San Clemente,

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California, Michelle spends much of her
time advising individual surf rider

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chapters on their local legal concerns.

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(inaudible).

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She also addresses the foundation\'s (inaudible) gone with
governmental agencies and other environmental groups.

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I love the sanded the (inaudible) ocean,

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I love the ways of passing, I
love going out when it\'s really…

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really big, wiping out, having sand
between you (inaudible), when you go home

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and waking up the sand in your sheets in your bed
you\'re just so tired from playing out thing,

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not just down to you (inaudible)

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like you that it\'s just it really is the magical
plays, and it\'s something that we need to help as her.

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Ventura County California
a construction project

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to extend an already offending jetty, But
Surf rider founder Glen Hening in to the sea.

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When I arrived what I thought was for
some pretty big bowl the others,

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pretty big brought, some pretty big heavy equipment
dump and some pretty big rocks, right in the ocean,

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so I took it upon myself to walk
on out there and stop the project,

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police were called the
project manager got involved

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the city engineers came down, so what we\'re
talked about essentially is another misguided

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example of ocean engineering
in order to protect beach,

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their protecting it by going up.
Unfortunately the protest failed to stop

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the project and the journey was completed.

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We kind of blew it without our guard down they built their
project and now this place, isn\'t as good as it used to be,

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and not only that but it really didn\'t
even accomplish its purpose of protecting

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what they wanted to protect by building it the beach got scoured out
behind it, so it was a complete waste of money time and effort,

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but more importantly a surf
spot has now been changed.

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In 1972, when water pollution
had reached epic proportions

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U.S citizens demanded that
Congress pass a law guaranteeing

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our right to clean water
today, over 20 years later

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this law is under constant threat of being dismantled
by our elected officials in the name of budget cuts.

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And this is bad news of the use water you would think
everyone would be in favor of clean water right.

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The fact is in Washington even water
needs a lobbying group (inaudible)

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the clean water network is a coalition of citizen organizations
looking out for the Clean Water Act It is headed by Robyn Roberts.

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The Clean Water Act of the
primary law in the United States

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that protects rivers lakes and
coastal waters from pollution,

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It\'s also the only national a lot of attacks
wetlands, they clean water act set out goals

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20 years ago to make all of
the water in the nations,

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umm… (inaudible) so that we can use them
for all the things they\'re important to us

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and still today umm… a third to a half of all
of our water still I\'m eating those goals,

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so we have a long way to go. Well,
Urban runoff accounts for 85% of

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all ocean pollution so much of the rest is
caused by what is known as point source

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of pollution originating from a single
point like a factory or a sewage plant.

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In 1989

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the Surf Rider foundation put the
Clean Water Act to the test,

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when it sued to pulp mills in Northern California, who are
violating the Clean Water Act by dumping untreated toxins

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into a prime surfing area
and Humboldt County,

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environmental attorney Mark Massara
was surf riders chief legal counsel,

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when he was just 27 and a recent
graduate of San Francisco Law School.

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Our goal was to assist a group of approximately
100 surfers and Humboldt County,

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who for 20 years had been dealing
with in, In an extremely

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dangerous pollution situation where
two pulp mills were discharging

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forty million gallons a day
of toxic black effluent

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into an extremely good surfing
environment we were able to prosecute

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to a successful conclusion
making the Humboldt County,

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North jetty area safe for surfing and
public recreation for future generations.

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Surf rider made headlines nation wide

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by winning the second largest settlement
ever under the Clean Water Act

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five point eight million
dollars and points.

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Urban run off point source
pollution and the construction

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of great (inaudible).

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The disappearance of sand
from our beaches is yet,

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another critical problem serve
remove sand from beaches

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especially during extreme tide hurricanes
and storms in the natural cycle,

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however the beaches replenished with sand
from in them sources carried by rivers

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and streams to the ocean, surf
and ocean current spreads

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and along the coast typically
restoring erosion over time,

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but sand replenishment is what
when damps stop the flow of river

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and the sand which would have replenished
the coastline remains landlocked.

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The matter is made worse
when mining operations

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removes sand from river banks
exposed by upstream dams.

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The sand that would have been carried
by the river to replenish the beach

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if carried away instead by earth moving
equipment by using construction part,

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and eventually,

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when the sand is depleted the operation
moves on to another location,

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the result barren rocky shores and ultimately
a depression in the beach economy.

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If you have a beach at sea roaring the real cause
is, all the dams that we dammed of all the rivers

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so there\'s no more sand coming in, and
so there\'s no more erosion of cliffs,

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so there\'s no more sand, so instead
of working on the real problem

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which is taking out the dams, we put
up all these breakwaters like this.

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A break water or jetty causes the sand to deposit
on one side by stealing it from the other

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to restore the beach down grid
another jetty is directed,

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which in turn prevent sand from the depositing
further on, so yet another jetty is with directed

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and another, and another. A pretty soon you\'ve got,
you know, Jetty\'s going up all over the place and,

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and you still don\'t have enough sand, because there\'s no more
sand coming in and the ocean is still taking the sand up,

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so then the next step is to put a
break water between the jetty\'s,

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and truck in sand, you know, and then

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that\'s it that\'s the final solution,
you\'ve got a beach but no more serve.

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It\'s just absurd and the
scary thing about it is,

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it\'s not going to stop here, it\'s going to
happen potentially in Southern California,

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and Florida, all over
the country, so maybe,

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maybe this is a place to look
at for a lesson, what\'s lesson,

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what\'s the object, don\'t let
it happen in your backyard.

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The eastern coastline of North
Carolina is actually a 90 mile chain

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of that spits, bars and fragile barrier
islands that are called the Outer Banks,

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In the summer time the Outer Banks
is a popular recreational area

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visited annually by over
six million tourists,

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Brant Wise is the founder of the
Outer Banks chapter of Surf rider.

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He was awarded the Department
of Interior take pride

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in America Award for his dedication to
preserving the Outer Banks coastline.

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On the Outer Banks we have a lot of (inaudible) open
beaches development minimal compared to other places,

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we don\'t have jetty\'s, we don\'t have all
for soil oil drilling for the most part

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comparatively speak is don\'t (inaudible)
pristine area, and we feel so strong

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about keeping and this drive, we can
learn through the efforts of others

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through the mistakes of others to protect
this area and I\'ve devoted my life to it.

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[music]

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The outer banks chapter Surf rider headed by Brant
realizes that in order to keep their coastline intact,

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they have to plan far into the future.
Accordingly they\'ve organized

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an educational program for
kids called respect the beach,

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which is taught by the local lifeguards. (inaudible) little while
ago we talked about what why not throw a litter on the beach,

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let\'s give me some reasons not to do that.

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Yes, (inaudible). 3000 miles away

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on the West Coast of the United States has
a similar program to educate children

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about (inaudible) ecology, It\'s
called kids for clean way,

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and it\'s headed by the former women\'s
world professional surfing champion

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Jericho Popplar Bartlow.

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(inaudible) my life and now, I\'m a mom and I\'ve got all these kids
and we\'ve got all these cousins, and we got all these friends,

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so why not teach them about the
environment by having a serving contest.

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[music]

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The lesson they teach

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is that a good time at the beach coupled with
an effort to clean it up results in a safe

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clean place to have fun next time.

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[music]

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The kids teach their parents
more about the environment,

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so it\'s like the whole family getting the
idea that we\'ve got a good ocean plan.

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[music]

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Becoming an expert circle requires
a multidimensional understanding

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of the way physics, weather Patterns, Ocean swells
entire split second timing doesn\'t heard out,

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slowly a surfer will develop sensitivity
to the ocean\'s rhythm and moved

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and with strangers,

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surfers definitely get a good pound,

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and only rare get mistaken for part
of the food chain, these are risks

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that surfers except,

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but what is unacceptable is the threat from poison
water, especially in consideration of the fact

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that technical solutions
are often sea and simple.

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Much less expensive in fact than dealing with
the cost and hassle the aftermath of pollution,

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almost lacking in most cases is public awareness
of these problems and that\'s where you come in.

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You know, it\'s very easy for us to surf riders it back and
constantly complain about the pollution problems at our beaches

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but it\'s a whole different thing to get involved
and ask the surfers that\'s what we need to do.

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In (inaudible), California
surfers gathered to protest

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the daily discharge of 7.9 million gallons
of waste water into a popular surfing area.

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That\'s sort of a hell of a lot easier to
stop something from happening to begin

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with than to change something
that\'s going on for 30 years.

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In Australia

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a Mark funeral was staged to mourn in the destruction of a
beach (inaudible) from my out fall, that was spewing millions

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of leaders of sewage into the ocean daily. So I would (inaudible)
everybody out there to pick up a pen and paper right now,

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and write a letter to whoever they elected into office, there\'s an
advantage of having (inaudible) and tell them what\'s important to you.

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Members of Surf rider friends marched in protest
when raw sewage was being dumped into surfing area,

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in (inaudible). It\'s more
important than ever that

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the environmental organizations
will fight with all their resources

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uh… this effort to degrade and
weak in our environmental laws.

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Police arrested protesters
in Australia were nearly

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4000 others linked arms, some
solidarity against an ocean out fall,

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which would have dumped raw sewage into
emerald beach. Being there personally,

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doing it yourself stepping up and saying
this is wrong, this shouldn\'t happened

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and even if there is nothing I need to really
stop it, I\'m going to make a symbolic effort

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right here, right now. Which suited protesters took
their complaints to the Australian parliament,

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when two oil company\'s plan to
ship crude into surfing area.

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You want to change government,
you want to change,

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the way this whole country has gone, then
you\'ve got to do something personal.

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Japanese surfers took personal risk when they
paddled out to block the dropping of tetraploids,

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which would have stopped all the way action at one
of the few remaining surfing beaches in Japan.

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The coastlines a natural treasure,

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you can\'t replace it, so little….