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The river near my house used to be brown, now it's clear enough to see fish.
Ten years ago, the local paper mill dumped waste straight into the water. After a big lawsuit and new rules, they built a treatment plant last year. Do you think fines or new tech cause more change?
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maxp681mo ago
@richardrodriguez it was clearly more than mud if a lawsuit and a plant were needed. Fines make companies pay, but new tech actually fixes the problem for good. The clear river proves that.
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richardrodriguez1mo ago
Clear enough to see fish sounds nice, but was it ever really that bad? A brown river could just be mud from rain. Lawsuits and treatment plants cost a fortune over some maybe dirty water. Seems like a lot of fuss when the problem might have fixed itself.
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