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They imagine they're the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Stephen Fry

Sewage coming across the border is a hazard to the environment and the public's health. Upgrading treatment to secondary standards is important.

Craig Benedetto

After we looked around and noticed coral was dying all over the Caribbean, not just in Florida where we have sewage and other problems, I found some literature on the Amazon rain forest. In the late '80s and early '90s, scientists determined that the African dust supplies most of the essential nutrients for the rain forest.

Gene Shinn

Fifty years ago, there were no fish below the sewage-treatment plant because there was no oxygen. Now, there are reproductive issues. I don't know which is worse in some ways.

Sheila Murphy

It's just nuts, the idea you could live there now, ... There's no power, no water, no sewage, no AC, nowhere to get food and .

Kevin Dwyer

It's gasoline and propane and oil and sewage, dogs and cats and people and rats and nutria. The guys have seen dogs that have drowned that are still on a leash in the back yard, several cars with bodies in them and floating bodies.

David Casey

This is a very interesting point, so what we ended up doing for exactly that reason was we collected sand in areas that had no contact with sewage. What we found was the fecal bacteria count in that sand was actually zero, whereas in areas that was actually exposed to the sewage we were finding incredibly high fecal bacteria densities.

Mark Gold

We've got to invest in basic services. That includes fire, water, sewage, the people here.

Kelly Coleman

I don't think most people like the idea of raw sewage being dumped into St. Louis-area streams. The stuff getting diverted into streams is not getting treated at all.

Ted Heisel

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth.

Glenn Morris

They can't stay because there's no electricity, there's no water, there's no sewage.

Robert Marshall

It's a good idea. There's a lot of things going on like water and sewage connections. It's gonna help we're gonna need money to do that.

Lee Fisher

Her infectious disease doctor, one of the very best in the state, has concluded it's highly probable that she obtained these bugs from the raw sewage that was in the water.

Rick Fried

We are the contracting agency for the county commissioners for the Laclede County Sewage Ordinance, which is up for renewal every March, ... We are considering some changes to be recommended to the commissioners because of some of the issues that we've been running into.

Charla Baker

It makes me angry that they post signs for jellyfish, but they don't post signs when 50 million gallons of raw human waste sewage are dumped.

Lisa Kennedy

A lot of our sewage treatment plants are taking sludge and dumping it in landfills. What we are saying is maybe we should be harvesting that waste instead of letting it go.

Gary Shepherd

It's not public works. It's not water, sewage or utilities. It's the soul of our life.

Brandon Powell

We spent millions installing a modern water delivery system, sewage treatment facility and paved roads.

Kip Petersen

They finally came by with a big high volume pump and they got most of it out. We found out the insurance doesn't cover sewage discharge.

Bruce Bainter

We have the knowledge and materials to protect our water, power and sewage treatment facilities, ... It's not going to be cheap, but it would produce enormous numbers of jobs. But it will only happen if the American public conveys that we want to be taxed for this priority.

James Jordan

There's a drain in the floor, with grease traps and sewage drains. We built this building first class, ... There's a full security system. We spent $85,000 to blacktop the parking lot.

Cliff Hall

It's a good deal for the environment because finally somebody will have a financial reason to clean up a sewage problem that's been ignored for too long.

Brian Bilbray

The sewage collection system expanded over the years and the sewer lines are going to need to be maintained. Having the rights of way officially transferred to the authority will help to avoid further complications and will allow the lines to be repaired or replaced when needs arise. Avoiding complications keeps the entire sewage collection system running smoothly.

Orville Lerch

You can think of floodwaters as diluted sewage.

Mark Sobsey

In Australia, a computer hacker used a laptop and a two-way radio to hack into a sewage control computer system, releasing more than 250 tons of raw sewage onto the grounds of a luxury resort hotel.

Robert Mueller

Sewage can lead to another disaster, which is disease.

Walter Maestri

Fortunately we've never had a sewage spill so big, so we don't really have experience to predict with on that.

Lawrence Lau

I was wading waist deep in the freezing, raw sewage of Jerusalem in some quixotic attempt to discover how King David had captured his capital.

Bruce Feiler

All of the evidence that we have says that the beaches are as safe now as they were before the sewage spill.

Chiyome Fukino

But, the sewage system has nothing to do with the funding needed for the village to take care of maintaining it, keeping the police force on the streets and keeping the lights on.

Tammie Riley

Their sewer system is overloaded and there are sewage overflows.

Freda Tarbell

If you tend to think that sewage going into a brook is a big deal, then this is a big deal. We're not in a panic over it, but we'd like it fixed.

Ian Cooke

Sewage treatment plants aren't designed to remove them.

Gord Miller

We need to address the state of the sewage lines and be concerned of the health of the ocean and residents.

Melody Heidel

When the rupture occurred, the sewage stopped coming out of the other manholes and only through the rupture at 21st Street.

Joe Haworth

There is little doubt that raw sewage is routinely dumped upstream of intake much less than the required 2 mile distance.

Ben Carter

It's impossible to dilute sewage adequately for a coral reef. You would have to treat the water to the point that you can drink it.

Peter Bell

In our backyard. There was a huge pile of raw sewage on top of the ground.

Melinda Rodgers

Those make it pretty clear that it's from the raw sewage.

Rick Fried

The two things that are absolutely necessary to ensure public health — clean drinking water and proper sewage systems — simply are not available in the east bank area of New Orleans at this time.

Fred Cerise

At that time, he didn't find a problem with leaking sewage.

Marilyn Smith

Imagine you had a plumber in your house to fix a broken pipe three years later he'd still fixing that pipe but now your house is filled with sewage.

Aaron Glantz

I think because of Oliver, people are aware what is out there in this sewage-tainted water.

Friederike Boszko

As the city of New Orleans begins its re-entry program this morning, there are continued concerns that the damaged electricity, water, sewage and safety systems are not restored to a level that can meet the basic needs of the businesses and residents who return.

Thad Allen

The long and short of it is fines are a method of obtaining compliance with the law, so our goal is to get this district to take care of its sewage.

Teresa Schilling

Basically lakes of sewage were created.

Joe Haworth

The approach, in fairness, should be to re-negotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again.

George Ferguson

This plan will make sure that treatment facilities warn the public when they dump sewage into local waterways.

Nancy Stoner

For the most part, we've been pretty lucky and the current has been taking the sewage straight out to sea. But that could change.

Kurt Tsue

The biggest problem is the sewage contamination of the water.

Glenn Morris

The sewage collection system has expanded over the past 21 or so years as our community grew. Many of the homeowners who granted permission to extend the system to serve their homes are not now the current resident. All customers of the Clarion Area Authority should acknowledge the importance of the service provided to public health of Clarion.

Paul Weaver

While there are a lot of chemicals in the water, they probably don't rise to the level of an acute toxin. Probably the biggest danger right now is the sewage.

John Pardue

A lot of poor people are leaving their countries to go to rich countries. Isn't it preferable, isn't it cheaper, to pay so that these people have water, sewage, energy, to keep open the possibility for them to stay in their (own) countries?

Loic Fauchon