India is planning on investing around $3 billion in cleaning the river Ganges, which flows through northern India and Bangladesh. Currently, around 50 percent of Delhi's raw sewage flows straigt into the Ganges. ...
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Talk about adding insult to injury
violations of municipal codes and land use requirements are wavied for Jacksonville Port Authority regardless of its numerious infractions at least for the moment. To...
The sewage systems for communities on the Great Lakes are actually designed to dump 15 billion litres of sewage into local waterways every year. To get a better sense of what sewage pollution is being reported,...
A steel plate lodged into a sewage pipe has caused millions of liters of sewage to flow into the Ottawa River. 6.5 million liters of raw sewage flooded into the river before city crew were able to remove the...
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Yes, the civil war is over, yes, the government won However we now have a situation that shows the government to be despots as they are against an independent report concerning the war and possible war crimes....
Seated across from me next to the Judge at the Settlement Conference table were the three lawyers for the City, GVRD, and the Sewage Authority. They eyed me like sharks circling their bait. “All right...
opinion by steffanileman | 36 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago 533 views | 54 recommendations | 10 comments
"If it's yellow, keep it mellow, If it's brown, flush it down". William Shakespeare on how to behave in the 'water closet', 1647 - Much Ado About Nothing.
Today is World Water Day. Big...
While cleaning the filters at sewage treatment facilities I am sure is never exactly pleasant, workers in Illinois this week found something even more out of the ordinary than the usual. A placenta. "Workers in...
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The sludge and bacteria discharging onto the shores of Lookout Point Park from a stormwater sewer is within “the range that may be expected for urban areas”, according to an investigation conducted by the...
A sewage treatment facility in Central Japan is recovering more gold per year from processed sewage than some of the country’s biggest mines can yield. The plant has reported recovering almost 2 kg of gold per...
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Male infertility is a growing problem and this new study links low sperm count with pollutants in rivers that also cause sex change in fishes. The chemicals have not been positively identified but they act as...
Today two attempts of resistance over the U.S Soldiers has been covered by International media. one of the attempts of resistance over the U.S soldiers Convoy has been took place in Chaparhar district of Nangarhar...
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A utilities company has said the costs of cleaning up cooking fat poured down skins in Scotland amounts to £15m a year.Workers from the Scottish Water have dug out football-sized chunks of solidified cooking fat from a pump station in Thurso.The same problem is expected this...
The ever growing Dubai has not sufficient sewage treatment capacity, so wild dumping from collected sewage from home septic tanks became big business for truck drivers. " Down on the beach next to the Dubai...
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This is an important topic and I'm pleased to see more awareness of it. It's not without pitfalls and much of Europe is banning the spread of sludge or the better sounding "biosolids" on farmland."Farm...