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Sunday, January 25, 2004 |
I am looking for web sites relating to wastewater and found this nugget, a blogger who is posting his Experiences as a water and sanitation engineer in Guatemala.... But I can't find anyone talking about what I think is a huge sleeping budget issue: At some point, we as a society are going to have to fork over huge amounts of money to address water issues. Two big areas are immediately apparent to me: Projects that get water to people that have used theirs up and upgrades to our wastewater treatment infrastructure. Wastewater: It was more than 30 years ago that huge amounts of money were ploughed into building municipal wastewater plants. I remember when one of these was built outside of Springfield Mass. Bondi's Island. It made some neighborhoods of Springfield unbearable for a while and we could smell it up on the hill in Longmeadow on summer nights. We used to call a guy Bondi's because he let out a vicous fart one day at lunch. When the wind is right, I can smell the Pig's Eye treatment plant outside of the DNR. Security guards refer to it as the shit factory. One of the security guards at the DNR told me that she was stationed there for two days, but refused to go back because the smell made her sick. Another guard told me it is where they station you if you make too many mistakes at another place. I work to keep the daylight world of work and family and recreation completely seperate from the subject of "what happens after I flush the toilet, but stories like "Minnehaha creek hit with 300,000 gallons of spilled sewage" remind me of the existence of an infrastructure that wisks away my defamation. I am expecting this hidden world to inch its way into our attention. The decay is real. Pipes and pumps need replacing. Spills due to broken equipment are real. It will be interesting to see how communities, especially the ones who don't even want to pay for sidewalks, will deal with it. And it will be interesting to watch politicians, especially the ones who have bullshitted their way into office by promising lower taxes and smaller government avoid the issue. 6:57:10 PM ![]() |
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Cheddar X - January 23 1. Do you read more male or female bloggers? Why do you suppose that is?
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I looked back through the readings for my class and found some things that spoke to me out of the class I just finished: Jesus said,
In chapter 3, this teacher says,
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