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I am glad Florida is getting their act together in this one particular regard, but still feel shocked that they are doing this in 2022: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-pn-sewage-ocean-outfalls-20170412-story.html
I had heard that Saudi farmers were growing alfalfa in Arizona, barely paying for the land, and using unlimited water for crops they sent home. I posted about it here: https://imgur.com/gallery/TkBq8TN
I read more about what the Southwest was doing to conserve water and found out that California dumps sewage into the ocean: https://imgur.com/gallery/j0uggfe
I still trying to find out how much sewage and how treated it may be.
Ras668
Talk about a shitpost.
eightyearplan
clean antibiotics etc.out, but seems good if the pipes go to deep water.. https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-whales-change-climate/
DameDePiques
America, proudly: Look, we are going to stop doing that, how awesome are we? Rest of the world, flabbergastedly: Wait, you were doing WHAT?!
ME2BNS12
Monroe county dumps raw sewage about 1.5 miles off shore on the Atlantic side. I never knew if we were swimming in shit or not :/
woozle
hotaru251
FL's dumping into water was never its issue..its the feces walking and talking that it needs clean up. (thoguh TX is worse now)
WaxDragon
I don't understand the gov being like, eh, fix this up in the next 20 years. Like, there's no way it had to take that long
EroticZombiePants
If it involves the government doing it, it usually takes even longer.
MenloPart
It is extremely expensive.
TaylorTooSwift
Wait till you find out how navy ships get rid of “waste”
MenloPart
How about cruise ships?
sadurdaynight
It's common to externalize treated wastewater, but usually it's treated enough to be almost drinkable before output. Not cloudy filth.
trippingthelightfantastic
Do you suppose it'll be cleaned up before the ocean rises?
berserk
The ocean has risen 300 feet since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. That's an average of .33 inches per year, so everything is normal
pickinganameistoomuchpressure
asking for a friend
MenloPart
It looks like the sea is expected to rise .33-.4 inches per year, so if they aren't significantly delayed oceans may rise by an inch or two.
berserk
The ocean has risen 300 feet since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. That's an average of .33 inches per year, so everything is normal
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Happens a lot in the Great Lakes, too, which is fresh drinking water. Storm systems are combined with sewers and when they are 1/
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
overwhelmed by heavy rains, they just dump it all into lakes and rivers.
sebT4
Same in certain europe countries
dartmaster666
Canada ships their trash overseas illegally. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6410657
ballsoutflyer
america: busts all sorts of ass to get to the moon to beat russia. Also america: drags its ass on environmental anything.
NickRivieraMD
there's money to be made in both of those.
GlenL
That's because environmental things don't feed the military industrial complex like the moon landing did
3Davideo
One provides a great deal of prestige, the other is merely the right thing to do.
Filanwizard
Supporting the environment gets you called a socialist or communist, depends where the SuperPAC wheel of advert horror terms stops.
76000BatteryLlamas
But it's way out there - out of the environment
dartmaster666
Oh yeah, except America was one of the first to pass environmental laws dealing with including acts addressing solid-waste disposal, air ¹
dartmaster666
air and water pollution, and the protection of endangered species. Passed the clean water act and enacted the EPA in the early 1970s. ²
dartmaster666
Where are you from so we can see how well your country stacks up? People want to rip the US, but never say where they're from. ³
dartmaster666
Lol. Canada passed their environmental protection act in 1999. 29 years after the US. Canada is such an environmental leader. ??. ⁴
ballsoutflyer
And yet we still have loads of american corporations dumping waste into the environment and paying fines as "cost of doing business".