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It's literally what it sounds like: dumping untreated sewage into waterways and oceans. A big problem in all of these is adding nitrogen and phosphorus to the
by dgacmu 2y ago
It's literally what it sounds like: dumping untreated sewage into waterways and oceans.
A big problem in all of these is adding nitrogen and phosphorus to the water, which facilitates algae growth, which consumes a lot of the available oxygen:
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_pollution/010nutrients.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_pollution/0...
Urine and feces are great sources of nutrients - good if you extract them, sterilize, and use responsibly on land, not good if you dump directly into water.
- rolph 2y agothere is a natural phenomenon known as wetland. these things reclaim, and redistributex raw materials that are like rocket fuel for microbes. these wetlands are inconvienient for [growth] as they take up a lot of area, andget in the way of housing developments, parking lots, and sewage treatment plants. the solution is attempted dilution,thus: >>It's literally what it sounds like: dumping untreated sewage into waterways and oceans.<<
- corinroyal 2y ago[flagged]
- euroderf 2y agoData point: IIRC the Great Lakes were getting choked on algae until they banned phosphates in detergents. And of course there is always fertilizer runoff.