claim: "we're worse than a third world country in terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage."
author: mike polensek
evidence_1: may 14, 2018 ... yet while we all know water is crucial for life, we trash it anyway. some 80  percent of the world's wastewater is dumped—largely ... meanwhile, our  drinkable water sources are finite: less than 1 percent of the .... but according to  epa estimates, our nation's aging and easily overwhelmed sewage treatment ...
evidence_2: dec 23, 2011 ... "let's face it, this is the year 2010 and we're worse than a third world country in  terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage," ...
evidence_3: water issues in developing countries include scarcity of drinking-water, floods,  the siltation of river systems, as well as the contamination of rivers and large  dams. some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access  to .... surface water contamination due to lack of sewage treatment and industrial  ...
evidence_4: water-related efforts in the developing world are often balkanized and not ...  focuses on presentations addressing the challenges in developing countries. ...  women's lives are further impacted by lack of water and sanitation because they  are .... the long-term feasibility of waterborne sewerage and wastewater treatment .
evidence_5: oct 23, 2014 ... it's your world. ... drinking water quality guidelines and standards are designed to  enable ... major nutrient sources include agricultural runoff, domestic sewage ...  every year, more people die from unsafe water than from all forms of .... to be the  primary concern in both developing and developed countries; ...