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Topic: Sewage

Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona (Courtesy of Michael Bogan)

How sewage helped restore a desert river

A cyclist stands on the beach near the U.S.-Mexico border barrier which extends into the Pacific Ocean on April 7, 2022 in Tijuana, Mexico. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Tijuana sewage causing health crisis

Rusted manhole cover in the cement of an abandoned street (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The past, present, and future of poop

Jenny Morber - Undark

Plant Manager of the City of Los Angeles Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant points out the ongoing repairs to the underground pipe room that runs under much of the plant on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021 in Playa Del Rey, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why we need to end big sewage

Chelsea Wald - Undark

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Valves along the sludge treatment channels, Margate wastewater scheme. (Adrian Greeman/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)

Sewage has stories. Will the US listen?

Miranda Weiss - Undark

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Questions remain about treated sewage

Tom Perkins - Civil Eats

High water cover the road in the Box Town neighborhood as a waste can floats Sunday, May 8, 2011 in Memphis, Tenn. as flood waters continue to rise along the Mississippi River. (AP Photo/Wade Payne) (AP)

US rivers becoming saltier

Sujay Kaushal, Gene E. Likens, Michael Pace, Ryan Utz - The Conversation

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In this April 13, 2015 file photo, dead fish float at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The rowing and canoeing venue for the 2016 Rio Olympics will be held at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, which is a beautiful locale spoiled by sewage-filled water and floating debris. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) (AP)

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Our sewers are a goldmine

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Cruises dump waste into oceans

Joanna Rothkopf

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