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• Biogas production. Energy extraction. Eco city. “… waste incineration contributed 80% to net energy production and GHG turnover, wastewater treatment (including sludge digestion) contributed another 10%, while other waste treatment processes used (compost

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  Tjalfe Poulsen, from Aalborg University, in Aalborg, Denmark, has said:“Generally incineration with or without energy production and biogas production with energy extraction are the two most important processes for the overall energy balance mainly due to the substitution of fossil fuel-based energy …”More from ...
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• From the Toilet to the Tap

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 882
  Cloacina was the ancient Roman goddess of sewers. Think about that for a minute. To the Romans, the ability to take vile, disgusting wastewater and just get it the heck out of Rome was such a miraculous feat that they created a whole deity to watch over and protect the pipeline.Now, how much more impressive would ...
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• World Bank lending $1 billion to clean Ganga

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) India’s relaunched programme to clean its sacred river Ganga will get $1 billion from the World Bank, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and Bank President Robert B. Zoellick announced here Wednesday.“The Ganga has sustained civilisation throughout time, but is today burdened by expanding ...
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• Misk Lake Safe… for Now

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 539
  ‘Misk Lake’ is a massive cess pool into which is dumped sewage and waste waters from the city of Jeddah. Much of Jeddah is not on a municipal sewage system, but instead relies on septic tanks and temporary storage of waste that is later pumped into tanker trucks which are emptied into the ‘Lake’. The lake, a ...
  2 days ago

• Don’t Move

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 155
  Ah shit! You know what I hate? When you visit your son on Long Island for Thanksgiving and you fall neck deep into a friggin cesspool.I really hate that. Eduardo Matos (71) fell into the sewage while walking outside on the lawn.  Mr Matos  said “I was calm . . . If you panic, that shit will suck you right ...
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• City Hall Aide Is Named Environmental Protection Commissioner

  
  City Room — Authority: 783
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg named Caswell F. Holloway IV commissioner of environmental protection and Vincent N. Schiraldi probation commissioner.
  3 days ago

• This year’s best Christmas cards

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 141
  Surfers against Sewage frozen litter card In greener circles, people are beginning to question the value of sending Christmas cards. We think it’s a very personal choice as to whether you send them or not – your great Aunt Elsie could be very offended if you don’t. But there are lots of ways to make ...
  3 days ago

• Todays wet but successful beach clean organised by Mikey Corker and Surfers Against Sewage (click to enlarge)

  
  The Barrister Blog — Authority: 472
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  4 days ago

• How Do You Do Basement Bathroom Plumbing ?

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  One of the first things that happens when a home is being built, is the basement bathroom plumbing is installed. This is done as soon as the footings and foundation are poured and the forms are stripped off.Sometimes the gravel will be laid before the plumbing and then the plumber has to dig a trench [...]
  5 days ago

• 37% of Sewers Drain Into Lakes and Rivers Untreated

  
  Fishing Fury — Authority: 128
  I live on the east coast of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, located right on the Atlantic ocean. It’s not a big city, but as recently as this summer it was dumping raw sewage into the harbor. Granted, there was a problem at the sewage plant, but the plant was only opened fairly recently. It’s [...]
  6 days ago

• The Wave protest

  
  HUCK magazine — Authority: 446
  Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) need to gather together as many wet-suited surfers as they can in London on December 5 for The Wave , the UK’s biggest climate change march. The Wave, which is organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition , has been organised ahead of the COP 15 UN Climate Change Conference in ...
  6 days ago

• NASA links sewage treatment to algae based biofuel production

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 487
  Some environmentalists and thinkers have eyed algal biofuel production as a process that is unsafe for freshwater sources to some extent. Now, to satisfy them, NASA suggests growing algae in sewage-filled plastic containers. Dubbed as the OMEGA (membrane enclosures for growing algae), the innovative approach embeds ...
  6 days ago

• DWV challenge for house addition

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  Greetings..I am stumped. I am adding an addition on to our house and will be installing a new bathroom. I will be running the new DWV pipes completely un-obstructed until I get to where I want to tie into the existing 3″ soil stack.Here in lies my problem, as I was tracing the best and [...]
  1 week ago

• Sewage Ejector Kit Vent

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  I’m hoping someone in Ontario Canada can give me a little information on a sewage ejector kit I’ve installed in my basement for a bathroom/laundry tub.I’ve been getting conflicting information on vent size….Right now the basin is all installed and hooked into my sewer line (2″ pump discharge with a check ...
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• How big a flood plain should we protect?

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 126
  Canada usually regulates floodplain development on the basis of a 100 year storm (the storm calculated to have a 1% chance to happen each year) or a regional storm. The White House is now consulting on a new executive order that would expand floodplain protection for critical facilities, from the 100 to the 500 year ...
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• When it rains, it pours crap

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 581
  From the NY Times : One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation’s sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste. During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make ...
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• Odds and ends for 11/23

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  Critics of the health-care reform bills complain that the government will start paying for it years before people actually begin to receive services. And that’s a valid complaint. But if it all started together, wouldn’t they be complaining about that, too, because that would represent a failure to get the money ...
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• Company at center of bribery scandal competing for new contract with Detroit

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 638
  Even though Synagro Technologies has been tied to a bribery scandal that may land two company representatives, consultant Rayford Jackson and former Michigan executive James Rosendall , in prison, the Texas-based waste disposal company is in the running for a new contract with the city. When bribery charges ...
  1 week ago

• Cleaner water

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 509
  Walter Bauer contacted me with an interesting invention/process [pps]: The Bauer Energy Design® Water Processor improves water quality through many fundamental phenomena: Zeta potential reduction, electrolysis, turbulence and cavitation. Zeta potential controls the growth of particles in water. Reducing Zeta ...
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• The Daily Dig: Big Fat Sewage Dump Edition

  
  INFRASTRUCTURIST — Authority: 562
  . More than a third of U.S. sewer systems are beyond their capacity and are dumping waste into rivers and lakes — but only a fraction of these violations draw fines from regulators. Meanwhile, as many as 20 million people get sick each year from unsafe drinking water. ( NYTimes ) Green businesses are migrating ...
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