Gregory Benford

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain.

American Physicist

Sylvia Earle

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

American Scientist

Caroline Lucas

Britain was once notorious as the 'dirty man of Europe' with polluted air, raw sewage pumped into the sea and protected sites being lost at a terrifying rate. E.U. laws and the threat of fines changed much of that.

British Politician

Dustin Lynch

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

American Musician

Jim Sarbh

Absolute Water' converts sewage water into water which can be even consumed - if only one can get rid of the taboo of drinking sewage water, which they do in many parts of the world!

Indian Actor

Gary Locke

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

American Politician

Stephen Fry

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

British Comedian

Jack Hanna

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

American Celebrity

Glen Duncan

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

British Author

George Meredith

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

English Novelist

Sewage is a critical environmental issue, often connected to pollution and public health.

Environmental Concern

The management and treatment of sewage is usually handled by local governments.

Municipal Responsibility

Sewage is a technical term used especially in civil engineering and environmental sciences.

Technical Usage

 They run part of a territory, they administer all their functions, they pick up the garbage, they run the sewage system. Is this a state? Is it a rebel group? Or maybe something else, something different and new? And what about ISIS? The lines are blurred. We live in a world of states, non-states, and in-between,

The surprising way...

 to that point the river was full of raw sewage it was just free flow into the river it also meant that people were getting really ill from cholera and dying parliament agreed to invest in a sewage system this victorian era sewage system relieved the pressure on the river but then in the second world war it was

The Worth of Water PIPE...

 scheme a couple of years ago and it's a way of getting members of the public who bought tickets to come to the event to help us to communicate where to take things what to bring with them and what to take away again millions of liters of sewage have to be processed from this event but we screen

What Happens To The...

 Today, most cultures consider trips to the restroom to be a more private occasion. But even when going alone, our shared sewage infrastructure is one of the most pivotal inventions in the history of humanity. While many ancient religious texts contain instructions

A brief history of...

 to turn our sewers into modern-day health observatories. Their goal is to study opioids within the sewage to better understand consumption in cities. And this data is key, because it really helps cities understand where people are using, how to allocate resources

Big data, small farms...

 admittedly, with some costs in civil liberties that would be tough to accept in the Western world. But the impact of all that wealth allowed people to get massively better nutrition. It allowed water pipes to be placed. It allowed sewage pipes to be placed,

We need nuclear power to...

 Human activity is similarly responsible for growing dead zones around the world. So what can be done? In the short term, countries can set tighter regulations on industrial run-off, and ban the dumping of untreated sewage into ocean waters.

Can the ocean run out of...

 Why is that? Inadequate sanitation, poor protection of drinking water sources, and improper hygiene often lead to sewage and feces-contaminated water. That's the ideal breeding ground for dangerous bacteria, viruses, and parasites.

When is water safe to...

 And high-tech solutions are definitely going to help us solve some of these problems, but in our rush towards the future, we tend to forget about the past. In other parts of the world, where rivers are contaminated with sewage,

How to build a resilient...

 and sewage away electric lines strung from pole to pole phones connected through networks of cell towers and grids of roads and public transit move us from home to work and home again