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Sewage — Victoria (Canada)

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Sanitary sewage is the mixture of human body wastes, water and chemicals which must be disposed of in some healthy, inoffensive way when people live together. Most cities and towns nowadays have chosen to dispose of these body wastes by water-flushing systems, although the hardware varies from sitting-toilet to squat-hole.

“We all know that ‘Dilution is not the solution to pollution’. Because of this some people think that any sewage, treated or not, diluting in the environment is just delaying the onset of the inevitable. Eventually even dilute treated sewage will build up to pollution — they think”.

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  1. Biology Department, University of Victoria, V8W 2Y2, Victoria, B. C., Canada

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Ellis, D. (1989). Sewage — Victoria (Canada). In: Environments at Risk. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74772-4_6

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