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If you flush a toilet, your feces will go to the sewage treatment plants, which are sold as assets, not liabilities.
There are problems of sewage overflow and contamination, but I would also argue that almost every city has this exact condition, and it's a condition that we're all facing.
Try this quick thought experiment: imagine a restaurant that serves Michelin-starred food, but where the restaurant smells of sewage and there's human feces on the floor.
Literally, the raw sewage runs through the camp.
Now, all these photos had been damaged by water, submerged in salt water, covered in bacteria, in sewage, sometimes even in oil, all of which over time is going to continue to damage them, so hand-cleaning them was a huge part of the project.
San Francisco is also spending 40 million dollars to rethink and redesign its water and sewage treatment, as water outfall pipes like this one can be flooded with seawater, causing backups at the plant, harming the bacteria that are needed to treat the waste.
That's why we're starting to see more disclosure laws come out, so for example, on the environment, there's the Aarhus Convention, which is a European directive that gives people a very strong right to know, so if your water company is dumping water into your river, sewage water into your river, you have a right to know about it.
Since the 1950s, as the population of the medina grew, basic urban infrastructure such as green open spaces and sewage quickly changed and got highly stressed.
Then pollution takes its toll, mainly due to untreated sewage and chemical dumping from crafts such as tanning.
At some point, I couldn't bear the desecration of the river, such an important part of my city, and I decided to take action, especially after I heard that the city received a grant to divert sewage water and to treat it.
So for sure, the Fez River Rehabilitation will keep on changing and adapting to the sociopolitical landscape of the city, but we strongly believe that by reimagining the role and the agency of the architect, we have set up the core idea of the project into motion; that is, to transform the river from sewage to public space for all, thereby making sure that the city of Fez will remain a living city for its inhabitants rather than a mummified heritage.
They run part of a territory, they administer all their functions, they pick up the garbage, they run the sewage system.
We have taken the fish out of the oceans and we have added in fertilizer, sewage, diseases, oil, pollution, sediments.
The second tap that we need to open up to solve our urban water problem will flow with the wastewater that comes out of our sewage treatment plants.
You've probably seen signs like this that tell you that the shrubbery and the highway median and the local golf course is being watered with water that used to be in a sewage treatment plant.
Because once we build the first few water recycling systems close to the sewage treatment plant, we have to build longer and longer pipe networks to get that water to where it needs to go.
This landscape was watered with treated sewage water.
Here in the US we still get sick from drinking shit in our sewage water.
Where I live in Portland, Oregon, I can't take Echo for a swim during the rainy season, because we dump raw sewage sometimes into our river.
Our rainwater and our sewage go to the same treatment plant.
Forty percent of municipalities self-report dumping raw or partially treated sewage into our waterways.
It allowed sewage pipes to be placed, dramatic decrease in diarrheal diseases, at the cost of some outdoor air pollution.
And I asked the real estate guy what it was as we were walking by, and he goes, "It's something to do with the sewage system."
Water supply, sewage, electricity, there are 1,400 CCTV cameras that are used for security by an entire station that is set up.
This is key, because many reefs are overgrown with algae due to nutrient pollution from sewage and fertilizer that runs off of land.
And when we were walking through the narrow alleys, it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes.
When she came into my life, we were fighting against a huge waste facility planned for the East River waterfront despite the fact that our small part of New York City already handled more than 40 percent of the entire city's commercial waste: a sewage treatment pelletizing plant, a sewage sludge plant, four power plants, the world's largest food-distribution center, as well as other industries that bring more than 60,000 diesel truck trips to the area each week.
We've got some runoff from a sewage plant farm.
And if we jam nutrients, sewage, fertilizer in the base of that food pyramid, it can back up all through it.
Often what jams us up is sewage.
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