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While it obviously seems ridiculous, waste water must go somewhere. Last part of the article:
The tone of their response could have been better though.
Yes, usually it's been treated though
Treated wastewater is not sewage.
https://youtu.be/s8IVjQg7yno
Yeah, you clean it, process the extracted waste and recycle the water... At least that's what normal people expect to happen. Allowing a company to externalize their waste to be "the worlds" problem is not acceptable. They should have to pay for the clean up.
This would require the water company to properly charge their customers based on how filthy they make the water. Normal household vs chemical giant for example.
Did a bit of a reading how it works locally around me and turns out there indeed is a treatment process involving bacteries that eat the bad stuff and then you get treated water + sludge. Sludge is re-used for bunch of stuff and water is pumped back at sea. Never really thought how it all works, in my mind it just got dumped somewhere.
Yeah it's pretty high tech and corrosive business. Companies should clean it properly, the oceans feed us and give us oxygen so no dumping raw sewage