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madfranks
4th March 2011, 07:44 PM
The whole point of a sewer system is to wash the filth away, but in San Francisco, saving water is more important than washing the poo away.

Link Here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361896/San-Francisco-spends-14-million-bleach-eco-toilets-cause-stink.html)

San Francisco is paying a high - and smelly -price for promoting eco-friendly low-flow toilets.

Twenty million gallons a year are being saved, but because the small amount of water isn't pushing the waste away fast enough there's a stinky whiff in parts of the city.

Now authorities are set to undermine the toilets' green credentials by flushing $14 million worth of bleach to solve the problem.

Public Utilities Commission spokesman Tyrone Jue admitted that skimping on toilet water had caused more sludge to back up inside the sewer pipes.

It has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park - home to the San Francisco Giants - and other parts of the Bay Area, especially during the summer months.

The city has agreed a three-year deal for concentrated bleach - sodium hypochlorite - to disinfect treated water before it's pumped into San Francisco Bay and to sanitise tap water.

The plan has been condemned by environmentalists Adam Lowry, a chemical engineer and German chemist Michael Braungart.

They blogged:'This is the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack an egg.

k-os
4th March 2011, 09:46 PM
Ah yes, the unintended consequence strikes again!

I wonder what they will do when the bleach causes some other problem like pipe erosion.

Buddha
4th March 2011, 11:48 PM
Cigarette butts, duh :D

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese scientists say they have found a way for the countless cigarette butts that are tossed every day on streets, beaches and other public places to be reused — in protecting steel pipes from rusting.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/14/chinese-scientists-say-cigarette-butts-help-prevent-steel-corroding/

BrewTech
5th March 2011, 07:09 AM
What did the gay blind guy say as he walked past AT&T Park?

"Good morning, gentlemen!"


:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Neuro
5th March 2011, 07:51 AM
Ah yes, the unintended consequence strikes again!

I wonder what they will do when the bleach causes some other problem like pipe erosion.
Probably nothing! Eventually San Francisco will be declared a toxic wasteland, and abandoned!

ShortJohnSilver
5th March 2011, 02:13 PM
So basically large parts of SFO will smell like a homeless person... in addition to all the homeless people they already have.

Down1
5th March 2011, 05:15 PM
Rejoice, this is the land of the free !
Just because they dictate what size pot we piss in, it is no reason for alarm.

Bullion_Bob
5th March 2011, 06:28 PM
http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10018/potty-poo.gif

Cobalt
5th March 2011, 07:23 PM
California has long believed that it can control every aspect of it's population though additional regulations so why don't they just create another one and make it illegal to take a shit :oo-->