Twenty years ago, an environmentally minded state senator named Bernie Fowler convinced a bunch of people to come down to Calvert County and wade into the Patuxent River until they could no longer see their shoes.
That rough demonstration of water clarity (or lack of it) struck a chord with environmentalists.
Now wade-ins are held throughout Maryland's part of the Chesapeake Bay each May and June.
They're sometimes criticized as being unscientific - something supporters don't dispute.
But they get people out in the water, thinking about how clean and clear it is, or isn't. And that, supporters say, is what it's all...
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