A Massachusetts mother helped save one of America's dirtiest rivers. Her campaign paved the way for landmark clean water laws
- Representative Image of a river restored after a landmark clean water campaign (AI-generated image)In 1962, Marion Stoddart moved with her husband and three young children to Groton, Massachusetts, settling less than a mile from the Nashua River.
- At the time, the Nashua ranked among the ten most polluted rivers in the United States, running a different colour depending on what paper mills and factories had discharged into it that day, its stench reportedly detectable from a mile away.
- Rather than accept this as simply the way things were, Stoddart made restoring the river her personal mission,
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- Representative Image of a river restored after a landmark clean water campaign (AI-generated image)In 1962, Marion Stoddart moved with her husband and three young children to Groton, Massachusetts, settling less than a mile from the Nashua River.
- At the time, the Nashua ranked among the ten most polluted rivers in the United States, running a different colour depending on what paper mills and factories had discharged into it that day, its stench reportedly detectable from a mile away.
- Rather than accept this as simply the way things were, Stoddart made restoring the river her personal mission,
Sources: Times of India