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A restaurant and two condominium developments near the Lake of the Ozarks allowed sewage to be dumped into the popular central Missouri lake, state Attorney General Chris Koster claims in two lawsuits filed Monday.
U.N. agencies and international aid groups urged Israel on Thursday to immediately ease its Gaza Strip blockade to allow in spare parts and building materials to repair the territory's dilapidated sewage and water networks.
What's the water like where you swim — not the temperature, but the quality? An annual report released Wednesday concluded that beach water quality is not improving across the country.
For years, the British Columbia capital of Victoria has dumped tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage every day into the waters separating Washington state and Vancouver Island.
Sewage from toilets flows in open ditches here, spilling into back yards and even onto the lone baseball diamond where children play after school. The nose-wrinkling stench carries throughout this century-old, one-diner village outside Chicago.
Detroit officials were approached in 2001 with what was hailed as a visionary project to clean up the unhealthy yellow plumes that cast a pall over the city's gritty Delray neighborhood.
Toxic fumes have killed at least 10 people who were trying to clean a sewage pump station in a town in central Mexico.
Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay.
The USS Port Royal discharged about 5,000 gallons of raw sewage when the warship was grounded a half-mile off Oahu, the state said Tuesday while warning the public to avoid the area.
A Kalama police officer reached into a tank of sewage to rescue a dog that had jumped inside. The officer, Jeff Skeie, was able to grab the sinking dog by the ear Tuesday and pull it out by the scruff of its neck. He had waste only on the sleeves of his uniform until the dog gave itself a vigorous shake, spraying him head-to-toe with sewage.
The city plans to turn the stench of its residents' waste into sweet green cash and renewable energy.
Some people dub it "stools for schools," yet a plan to lease the city's sewage system gets high marks from others.
When a toilet is flushed in Gaza City, the waste sloshes straight into the Mediterranean.
Federal officials say they plan to clean up Acapulco's popular bay, where an estimated 400 gallons (1,700 liters) of sewage spews into the Pacific ocean every second.
An estimated 2.7 million gallons of partially treated sewage and storm water has spilled into San Francisco Bay from a treatment plant, authorities said.
A huge sewage reservoir in the northern Gaza Strip collapsed Tuesday, killing five people in a frothing cascade of waste and mud that swamped a village and highlighted the desperate need to upgrade Gaza's overburdened infrastructure.
Refining Poop Power: Wastewater In, Cellulosic Ethanol OutThere's no nice way of saying this: A group of green-minded entrepreneurs are making a clean-burning car fuel out of, well, poop.
11 Great Things to Do With SewageThe material that dare not speak its name (except if you're 11 years old) makes its mark in greentech.
Baby's body parts found in sewage worksBody parts belonging to a baby have been found in a sewage treatment works near Hull, Humberside Police said.
Sewage Breeds Bigger, Faster MosquitoesA new study, presented at the meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Albuquerque, found far more mosquitoes in sewage-contaminated streams than in clean ones. Sewage-bred mosquitoes were also bigger and faster than those in purer waters.
Beach pollution still nationwide problemRaw sewage and other pollution continued to foul American beaches in 2008. For the fourth year in a row, more than 20,000 beach closing days were reported in the USA, according to a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, D.C.
Wetlands in the West Bank"No, it's not the Florida Everglades; it's a private initiative launched by a group of Israeli environmental activists who came up with an idea to construct artificial swamps near Palestinian villages that are specially designed for sewage treatment.
Human waste to heat thousands of homes in £4m plan to recycle it into gasIt gives a whole new meaning to cooking with 'natural' gas. Within two years, thousands of people will be preparing their dinner and heating their homes using methane gas extracted from human waste
Religious Freedom vs. Sanitation RulesIn a test of the legal rights and boundaries of religious belief, a sect of Amish have decided to fight City Hall over their treatment of sewage.The septic fight began in late 2006 when the executive director of the Cambria County Sewage Enforcement Agency, Deborah Sedlmeyer, fou …
Florida town to use poop for fuelYes, you read that headline correctly. Sanford, a city north of Orlando with almost 40,000 people (and 35,000 horses, apparently), is going to turn sewage into energy, Fast Company reports.
Sheriff Padlocks Amish Homes For Sewage Violations Sheriff's officials padlock the doors of two Amish homes Monday after the families who lived there refused to comply with sewage and building codes.
Sewage sludge dumped off Newcastle beachesHUNTER Water is among the last few utilities in the developed world to dump sewage sludge in the ocean, a practice that has raised serious health and environmental concerns.
Recycled sewage struggles with yuk factor One day, when you read on a drink bottle "this water has been passed by the minister of health," the message may be open to interpretation in more ways than one.
Sewage to fuel buses OSLO - CAN the key to 'clean' energy be found down in the sewer? City officials in Oslo think so and are planning to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste. As of 2010, the new buses are due to start plying the streets of the Norwegian capital.
"dealing with poop" due to foreclosure. Tenants Fume As Raw Sewage flows into yard"We're dealing with poop. Sorry to say that, but we're dealing with poop," said Mike McWilliams Since January, raw sewage has spilled out of a pipe next to his apartment
Gold mined from sewage sludge A sewage plant in Japan's Nagano prefecture has started mining gold from sludge, earning a cool 5 million yen ($56,000) in its first month of operation.
600,000 In the Gaza Strip Have No Water and Raw Sewage Flows Through the StreetsBetween 600,000 and 700,000 Gazans have no water, some of them going on a week. About one million have no electricity, raw sewage is running in the streets in some places and various localities, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, face the threat of sewer backups.
Zimbabwe's aging Dictator, Robert Mugabe today emphatically denied that there was any Cholera outbreak in his country.
Astronauts Prepare To Drink Recycled Urine - Space Station Will Get Sewage Treatment SystemAstronauts will outfit the International Space Station with a one-of-a-kind sewage treatment plant, which means the astronauts will be drinking recycled urine.
San Antonio will turn sewage into energyThe city plans to turn the stench of its residents' waste into sweet green cash and renewable energy. The San Antonio Water System will sell captured methane gas generated from the utility's treatment of 140,000 tons of biosolids, or sewage, from customers each year.
The Power of Sewage: It Runs Sweden's Trains, Buses and CarsWe could be generating huge amounts of power from sewage. The process is pretty simple — just ferment sewage to produce a fuel called biogas. Biogas is almost entirely methane, and so is natural gas, so the two are essential interchangeable.
Commission to Rename Sewage Treatment Plant After President George W. BushThe Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco wants to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. The commission calls it a tribute to the outgoing chief executive and the "mess" he'll leave behind.
Salad Dressing Floods BasementsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Storms and heavy rain usually flood basements with water, but some homeowners on the city's north side are dealing with flooding of a different kind on Wednesday.
San Francisco Will Vote on George W Bush Sewage PlantSan Francisco is to hold a vote on whether to rename one of its largest sewage treatment facilities after George W. Bush, in what supporters describe as "a fitting monument to the President's work".
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