Cruise Ships Dumping offshore of Jacksonville for Years!

"There have been cruise ships dumping offshore of Jacksonville for years", says Tony Orsini, Director of cruise ship and ferry operations for the Jaxport. as reported in the shorelines by drew dixon. Does the cruise ship director know something the general public doesn't...

WASHING THE LAS VEGAS WASH

Group celebrates transformation, reclamation of resource area"Not so long ago, the Las Vegas Wash carved its way through a southeast valley wasteland of illegal dump sites, homeless encampments and tangled forests...

Green Living means 'Don't shit where you eat'

In a context totally unrelated to sewage a boss of mine once advised me early in my career not to 'shit where I eat'.  This was wise business advice but it's also true in a literal sense.  The question...

Biofuels From Industrial/Domestic Wastewater

Biofuels turned from being the solution of world’s rising carbon emissions to the cause of a global food crisis which seems to be worsening day by day. Record demand and subsidies amounting for billions of dollars made the farmers dump the traditional food crops and...

Whole Cities To Be Drug Tested

    In what could be a breakthrough for researching long term drug use patterns for cities across the globe. Oregon State University researchers have developed a way to more effectively drug test...

Here Come The Urine Police

This is just great. One big urine test."WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant. The test wouldn't...

Rainwater tanks, greywater and recycling

'' An interesting article citing the new Australian labour party policy to encourage the use of and fund recycling of water initiatives as well as focussing on promoting the use of water tanks especially in the eastern states of Australia''"Rivers and WaterRainwater tanks,...

Urban Wastewater Can Provide More Accurate Estimates Of Community-wide Illici...

"Scientists in Italy are reporting development of a method for more accurate estimates of the amount of illicit drug use in a community.  Sara Castiglioni and colleagues note that current estimates of community-wide illicit drug use are based on indirect methods--such as...

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