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Phone app lets citizens report water pollution

By Wayne Parry
Published May 31, 2014 8:02pm ET
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Phone app lets citizens report water pollution
In this photo taken on May 28, 2014, Helen Henderson, a project manager for the American Littoral Society, demonstrates a new smart phone app developed for the group that lets people quickly and easily report water pollution or other marine environmental problems to authorities at a marina in Brick, N.J. The project was paid for by a $325,000 federal grant that came from fines levied on water polluters. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) | Wayne Parry

BRICK, N.J. (AP) — A free smartphone app is letting people report oil spills, debris fields and even algae blooms and jellyfish swarms in waterways around the world.

The Marine Defenders app lets people instantly file reports that go to a central pollution database and can swiftly be routed to the Coast Guard or environmental prosecutors if warranted.

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