Name: ニューヨークの有毒荒れ地。アメリカの水危機 (Part 1/3) (New York's Toxic Wasteland: America's Water Crisis (Part 1/3))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:47:03.000Z
Duration: 9 min 52 s
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EMERSON ROSENTHAL: New York City's full of shit--

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real shit, 27 billion gallons of shit that get dumped into

Even though the city pipes in crystal-clear drinking water

from a collection of reservoirs up north, the

waters that New Yorkers see and smell every day are a

Oil spills, PCBs, rotting corpses, human feces, and 15

feet of something called "black mayonnaise" are just a

few of the pristine features Mayor Bloomberg

We're dipping our toes in and testing the waters for

ourselves to see how the toxicity of the Hudson River

has become the norm for America's urban waterways.

I'm going to take this sample, make my way out of here.

TRACY BROWN: New York City wouldn't be New York City if

The fact that it is on the river and surrounded by water

is what defines the city and gives it its character.

One of the lingering problems we still have to address is

-In the early development of New York City, wetlands were

And they were basically filled in with garbage to create

TRACY BROWN: Where you have older cities, like New York

City, and Albany, and Yonkers, where they used to build the

wastewater infrastructure where the sewage and the

So when too much rain happened, it would overwhelm

those pipes, and they didn't want all that rain and

stormwater to go to their sewage treatment plant and

overwhelm the sewage treatment plant or back up into people's

And that's what happens in New York City when it rains.

That's what happens in other cities around the country.

EMERSON ROSENTHAL: The River Project has been

systematically testing the bacterial content of the

So we took our sample to their lab to evaluate it for

bacterial content that signifies the presence of

EMERSON ROSENTHAL: I cut my foot on some rocks on the way.

-And then you leave it to incubate for 24 hours at 41

EMERSON ROSENTHAL: Commercial fishing on the Hudson was put

to an end after the fish were deemed too toxic for

So after I cut my foot, I started to worry that, I, too,

like many of the poor, native fish species, might end up

The Atlantic tomcod has the unique honor of being the

first fish species to adapt to PCBs, the toxic factory

coolants GE poured generously into the Hudson in the '70s.

Usually known to cause cancers and deformations in the fish,

some tomcod have adapted to thrive in a PCB-rich

environment and have since evolved to survive in such a

CHRIS CHAMBERS: My particular group studies the early life

And we're particularly interested in how the

environments and habitat affects the survival and

What you see here is a greatly enlarged yolk sac.

And the body tends be more curved or not as straight.

TRACY BROWN: There's such limited commercial fishing

Commercial fishing, as a way of life, on the Hudson was

destroyed and taken away because of the pollution in