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In <299CD8BB.954@ics.uci.edu> mludwig@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Michael Scott Ludwig) writes:

>[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.

Scripps Institute of Oceanography has gone on record stating that first-stage
treatment does not harm sealife.

I think that this whole media scam is an attempt to divert the public's
attention from the RAW SEWAGE problems farther south.

>"We have not inherited the earth    |    Michael Ludwig
>from our ancestors, but are         |
>borrowing it from our children."    |    mludwig@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
>                                    |
> - David Brower, conservationist    |    UCI and I don't agree on anything.