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...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...
Bacterial wastes, such as the effluent from the nation's estimated 16.6 million residential septic tanks and cesspools, can be filtered fairly simply out of drinking water. But chemical contaminants are another matter. Says EPA Administrator Douglas Costle: "We are not even sure if, not to mention how, chemical contaminants can be removed. It takes sophisticated testing just to determine if there are chemicals present...