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cgod · 3 days ago · link · · parent · post: How much shit in your kids drinking water before you care?
This isn't about what your kids drink, it's about wastewater. I'll guarantee that their drinking water has no shit in it. The solution to polution is dilution and the ocean is probably pretty tolerant of what's getting pushed into it. This is about sewer overflows during rain events. Portland had/has the same problem. Portland dumped 1.4 billion dollars in 2011 to mostly solve it. We are also putting something like a billion dollars every 10 years into the treatment plant. The only thing standing between the public and clean ocean water is a huge increase in water rates. The people managing the the system would love to see 10 billion in infrastructure investment. Here's what Portland did.