California Wastewater Plants Dump Raw Sewage Into Rivers, Expert Alleges

Some wastewater treatment plants in California have been releasing excess human sewage into rivers, a water expert stated. Bob Bishel, who spent years in the water treatment industry, told The Epoch Times: “What happens in all of our rivers, streams, and lakes is they’re dumping the sewage, treated and untreated, into all these bodies of water. And then when they don’t have enough fresh water to wash it out to the ocean, you will have a blue algae outbreak, and that’s on human waste.” Despite the heavy rain California has received over the past few months, millions of gallons of water was flushed to the ocean every day instead of being captured for future droughts. Debates around the floodwater have been nonstop, with one side calling for the water to be saved in reservoirs and the other side arguing that the water needs to be released to protect endangered fish and other species....