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Your daughter is kayaking in Chicago on the North Shore Channel directly
behind Northside College Prep High School. If you think that the water flowing beneath her is from rain runoff and melting snow, guess again. Between sixty and one hundred percent of it is non-disinfected toilet and sewer water that has been discharged only three miles upstream at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s North Side plant. It is the most polluted discharge water of any major metropolitan area in the country, thick with bacteria levels that can be more than 1,000 times higher than what is discharged from other urban sewage treatment plants. The water contains human-borne viruses, bacteria and worms that can cause everything from hepatitis to staph infections to dysentery. Read more...
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