Word: effluent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of water at high altitudes, want to pump treated sewage through their snowmaking equipment. So far Vermont's environmental conservation agency has not approved the innovation. The proposal has set off a battle between environmentalists and resort owners. One bumper sticker reads, KILLINGTON: WHERE THE AFFLUENT MEET THE EFFLUENT. Killington officials and local developers are not amused. C.E. ("Cowboy") Snodgrass, a Killington carpenter, says he was fired from his job at a condominium construction site when he refused to remove the sticker from his truck. Snodgrass is suing, and the American Civil Liberties Union argues that his dismissal violated...
...twelve- year-old brother lobbed rocks over the fence at the officers. When he stooped to pick up another rock, one of the officers shot him in the back, seriously wounding him. More ill feeling was generated when Tijuana's aging and overloaded sewage system developed leaks, sending raw effluent into the Pacific and polluting San Diego's beaches...
...necessary, of course, to adjust one's feelings about Venice before entering this show. Today's visitor thinks of the city as a tottery invalid, preserved by the skin of the teeth from the ravages of tide, effluent, mass sightseeing and economic slump. One's awe at Piazza San Marco is mingled with pity and even impatience, and the child in the tourist impertinently wonders how soon the whole peeling confection, gold, Istrian stone, gelati and all, will be swallowed at last in the lagoon...
...face the prospect of having human waste flow untreated into rivers or even back up into basements. Robert Silvus, head of the waste-water section of the Texas department of water resources, describes the situation delicately: "There are parts of the year when our water is effluent-dominated...
...most desirable cities in the U.S. [Jan. 11], it said that "Atlanta is the second worst city for water pollution after Albuquerque." This comment has caused great consternation to both citizens and public officials here. TIME's source, the Places Rated Almanac, quoted a 1974 report on liquid effluent being discharged into the river. You imply that the city currently has polluted drinking water. This water comes from wells and has never been less than first-rate. Furthermore, since 1978, Albuquerque has been in compliance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, which means that wastes no longer pollute...