#sewage

River Estimated Daily Sewage (Liters/Day) River Length (km) Sewage Flow per km (L/km/day)

Yangtze 68.5 Billion 6,300~ 10,873,015 L

Ganges 3.0 Billion 2,525~ 1,188,118 L

Mississippi 1.13 Billion 3,766~ 301,380 L

Danube 520 Million 2,857~ 182,009 L

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@podaac ?

wet wipes are NEVER flushable, even if the packaging claims that they are!!!

i mean, just consider it a sec. those wipes are designed to be saturated in liquid. so by design, they maintain their integrity when wet, unlike toilet paper which is meant to break down in water after you flush.

wet wipes, to the contrary, do not break down in water. and thus they are a huge problem for our sewer systems due to the build-up of these wipes that refuse to break down.

WASHINGTON — The January collapse of a pipe as wide as a car dumped so much sewage into the Potomac River that officials tracked a spike of gut-wrenching bacteria drifting slowly past Washington for weeks, prompting an emergency declaration and federal assistance. It was a disaster of historic scale — 244 million gallons (924 million liters) spilled — spotlighting the severe consequences of old,…