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America Has a Scary Sewage Problem: Let’s Clean It Up and Jumpstart the Economy While We’re At It

Originally published on Alternet. The problem is simple, surprising, and quite honestly disgusting: Our nation’s older cities depend largely on sewage treatment systems that overflow when it rains, dumping 860 billion gallons of raw sewage a year into “fresh” water across the country—enough to cover the entire state of Pennsylvania an inch deep. This problem […]

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