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[about San Diego discharging semi-treated sewage water into the ocean]
rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
=melissa@spanky.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Melissa Probst) writes:
=>Is it not toxic to sea life?
=
=It's toxic to humans because it's full of human-specific bacteria and
=viruses.  We don't get distemper or most other animal diseases, fish
=shouldn't be affected badly by human waste.  In fact, it should act as
=an endless stream of fertilizer to any marine vegetation.

I'm sure that some of it is either beneficial or completely neutral to the
marine life.  But I strongly doubt that there is nothing in there that is
harmful to marine life.

In other words, yes some of it is harmful only to humans, but there is some
stuff that is harmful to many different living things.


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from our ancestors, but are         |
borrowing it from our children."    |    mludwig@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
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 - David Brower, conservationist    |    UCI and I don't agree on anything.