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Tests for illegal drugs carried out on sewage has revealed that thousands of Queenslanders are getting wasted daily SOUTHEAST Queensland’s sewage is being tested for illicit drugs to help police and overburdened emergency wards. The University of Queensland research, partly funded by the Australian Federal Police, shows thousands of people are taking drugs every day. The 2010-2011 southeast Queensland results, [...] ‘Making them more relaxed’ DAMIEN GAYLE Sleeping pills may be disturbing river ecosystems by turning fish into greedy, risk-taking loners, say researchers. Scientists studied the behaviour of perch exposed to a sedative which is carried into waterways through sewage. The drug, a benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety and insomnia called oxazepam, made the fish bolder and less social. They left the safety of their schools to forage alone – making them [...] A power outage at a Howard County water reclamation plant caused sewage to pour into the main stem of the Little Patuxent River at the rate of 2 million gallons per hour, according to the Associated Press. Officials told the AP that the overflow started Monday night and, given the severity of the storm, no action had yet been taken to mitigate the damage. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog/wp/2012/10/30/sandy-live-updates-from-the-post/?hpid=z2#liveblog-entry-4190 Lesson # 1: * U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 * Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 * New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 * National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 * Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000 Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget: * Annual family income: $21,700 * Money the family spent: $38,200 * New debt on the credit card: $16,500 * Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710 * Total budget cuts: $385 Got It ????? OK now: Lesson # 2: Here’s another way to look at the [...] Big Spring, Texas (CNN) — Desperate times call for a tall, cool glass of creativity in this patch of West Texas where water is scarce and quickly disappearing. But a plan to pump millions of new gallons of drinking water into the system has many people across West Texas holding their noses. This week construction started on a $13 million water-reclamation facility. That’s a fancy way of [...] “Iraq – A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets |
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