Arecent reviewin theJournal of Environmental Management, in fact, touts wastewater treatment plants as “renewable biological nitrogen mines” that can supply the essential but expensive component from reclaimed sewage sludge at a time when many farmers are finding it harder to obtain. Sewage can, t...
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“There’s no difference between hog waste and human waste in terms of its danger to human health. They [Smithfield and other giant corporate pig operations] ought to have to have a sewage treatment plant that cleans it up. And yet, if they had to build that sewage treatment plan, it w...
There’s no waste water management system, meaning sewage from these newly constructed hotels goes straight into that turquoise ocean. Island-hopping is the main attraction in El Nido’s archipelago, and every travel agency in town basically sells the same day tour. So idyllic lagoons became ...
“So it looks like a wetland but it’s constructed,” said Watson. Each day, 680 million liters of raw sewage, at least a third of the city’s total waste, pours into pre-treatment ponds before entering the “bheris,” shallow fish ponds, dug by local people and cooperatives. ...