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...Gloria outbreak may also give clues about the origins of the virus. The community is a few miles from an industrial pig farm Granjas Carroll de Mexico, which is 50% owned by Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, Inc. Residents have complained for several years about effluent - composed of animal waste and porcine feces - dumped by the farm and accuse it of making them fall sick. However, government agricultural experts joined the company in saying they have found no traces of swine flu in its hundreds of workers or thousands of hogs and piglets...
...writer Bill Buford (“Heat”) completely miss the mark. His overzealous defense of the pig as an animal worthy of plate space, for example, is not witty and charming, but absurd and disturbing: “You’d roll around in the first effluent you came across [too] if I ripped out your sweat glands and you had no other means of cooling down.” The mockery of his vegetarian wife, Susana, is also largely devoid of the playfulness he needs to pull it off.There is something instinctively appealing about Barlow?...
...authorities when it comes to a solution-and she's not alone. More than 10,000 people have signed a petition rejecting the local council's proposal to make the 95,000-strong community the first in Australia to supplement its drinking water supply by adding its own treated effluent. "We'll be the lab rats for the rest of Australia," says Morley. "But this is not a road we need to go down...
...community." Next month's poll in Toowoomba will shape the future of that debate. But a yes vote will only make it the first Australian community to officially welcome recycled water into its kitchens. Richmond, on Sydney's outskirts, takes water from the Hawkesbury River, into which treated effluent is discharged, as does Adelaide, from the Murray. Says csiro water expert Peter Dillon: "There are probably more people in the world taking water supplies from sources that receive effluent than people who don't." Many Australians are already drinking recycled water-they just don't get to vote on whether...
...part spa indulgence, Daintree Eco Lodge, certified by Australia's National Ecotourism Accreditation Program, falls somewhere in between. There are the requisite Jacuzzis and air-conditioning for those who can't live without such creature comforts. But there are green accents. The bio-cycle sanitary system, for example, recycles effluent and wastewater for irrigation, and the lodge has won plaudits from the Australian government for its energy-conservation efforts...