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Apr 26, 2005

"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come." --Leonardo da Vinci

A River Reborn

Fifty years ago London's River Thames was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead. Now the river that flows through the heart of Europe's largest city is awash with bottlenose dolphins, sea horses, and birds. Thanks to the success of pollution controls, today the river ranks among the cleanest metropolitan tideways in the world.