BOULDER, Colo. Flushing the toilet. It’s something we all do several times a day. We take showers, wash our hands, do the dishes and clean the laundry. We probably don’t think much about where the.
We gladly recycle our aluminum and paper with the expectation it gets repurposed into something new. But the idea that our human waste that we flush down the toilet would get reused somehow might make us wrinkle our noses. Not so for the city of Boulder’s wastewater treatment folks who see sewage as a valuable resource.
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In 1948, a World War II-era bomber crashed into Lake Mead, the massive reservoir formed by Hoover Dam that straddles the Arizona-Nevada border. After several failed attempts to locate the plane, it was finally discovered in the early 2000s still remarkably intact. As lake levels fall, will the draw to see the aircraft finish it off?
Lake Mead, Nev. The official crash report said the pilots were flying low to collect a last bit of scientific data before returning to base and that the instruments on their B-29 aircraft were improperly calibrated. Also, the account said that Lake Mead smooth as glass on that July morning in 1948 distorted their depth perception and sent the plane skipping like a stone across the water.