An Inquest On Our Lakes And Rivers

An Inquest on our Lakes and Rivers"It's too thick to drink and too thin to Plow." The speaker was a tall, lean middle-aged man long identified with the University of Pennsylvania's crews who raced on the Schuylkill river in sculls. That day the water of the Schuylkill did, indeed, look like the viscous liquids of a cesspool as we peered at it from a Philadelphia bridge.But the Schuylkill is pure, compared with some of our other waterways. Recently I revisited Houston, Texas, and the Bu...