Sean Price gives us the most basic and general of information on the causes and effects of water pollution created by human activity. Causes include farms’: animal waste, fertilizers and pesticides; industrial waste dumping; and human residential sewage.

The water pollution is talked about from past history to the present as causing health problems for wild life and humans including: diseases, such as, cholera and ‘dead zones’ were plant and/or animal life have been poisoned to extinction in specific areas.

The creation and need for the EPA is discussed.

There are 7 insets entitled ‘Eye-openers’ and 6 entitled ‘Question Time’ sprinkled throughout the 32 pages of this book, as well as, 6 diagrams and graphs. The Eye-openers give additional information and the Question Time sections give further explanation to the information introduced on that page.

This book believes in the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. There are pictures on every page.

The Table of Contents lists “Where to Find Out More” on page 31, but this section is missing.