For over 25 years - despite voluntary measures and regulations across six states and Washington, DC - the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, remains polluted, its tributaries largely unswimable and unfishable. Agriculture produces about half that pollution. The rest comes from sewage treatment, atmospheric toxins and runoff from lawns and streets in cities and suburbs. In this five part series, VOA’s Rosanne Skirble takes listeners and viewers into the Chesapeake Bay watershed to explore its beauty, its decline and the movement to restore it.
