Bottoms up! Sewage dumped in Canada river used for drinking water

Agence France-Presse: A stench rises from Montreal`s sewers, where used condoms, soiled sanitary napkins and other stomach-churning waste floats in the fetid brown water. That same foul mess this week began finding its way into Montrealers` water supply, after city officials began diverting one-third of the sewer`s contents into Canada`s St Lawrence River. Officials on Wednesday began piping eight billion litres - equal to about 3,200 Olympic swimming pools - of raw sewage into the St Lawrence, one of the nation`s......

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