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Spritual Rebirth on New York City's Rivers

By AAN Staff
june 6, 2002  04:19 pm
Spritual Rebirth on New York City's Rivers
The city's multitudes are returning to the primordial waters to worship, creating wonder for both believers and beholders and headaches for officals trying to balance religious freedom with safety and environmental concerns, The Village Voice's Eric Baard reports. "The insulted waters of New York City are again sacred passages, as they once were to Native Americans for millennia," Baard writes. "Thirty years after the 1972 Clean Water Act, raw sewage no longer pours into vital waterways, and industrial pollution has largely been checked. We are witnessing the ecological resurrection of our rivers and bays ... People are coming down to the water again to see rare birds, to kayak and to swim. And responding to an ancient call, they're coming down to the water to pray."
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