From the Toilet to Your Tap
The overpowering stench of something rotting often wafts across Interstate 10. If it weren't for smells like this that we occasionally encounter, most of us would never think about the constant stream of underground slime, chemicals and human waste slowly oozing its way toward two sewage-treatment plants along the Santa Cruz River.
Effluent Alters Sexuality of Fish
A study is finding that an endangered fish species experiences dramatic hormonal changes after being immersed for three months in treated effluent from Pima County's Roger Road sewage plant.
A National Assessment on Tap Water Quality
Tap water in 42 states is contaminated with more than 140 unregulated chemicals that lack safety standards, according to the Environmental Working Group's (EWG's) two-and-a-half year investigation of water suppliers' tests of the treated tap water served to communities across the country.
Water from sewage not safe enough
THE Adelaide scientist who developed Australia's drinking water guidelines says he would not drink recycled sewage and would not back its use.
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