new bern, one of many towns swamped by hurricane florence. the president made several stops in north and south carolina battling to recover from heavy rains and unprecedented floodin flooding. hurricane florence was one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the carolinas. one of the most powerful and devastating storms ever to hit our country. to the families who have lost loved ones, america grieves with you. despite the sunshine, some rivers may not crest until early next week. countless homes and businesses are underwater. it more than thousand roads are blocked. more than 3,000 people have been rescued along with hundreds of pets, but more than three dozen people were killed and roughly 150,000 customers are living without power. and the floodwater could pose a health crisis, some of it contaminated by sewage plants and hog waste lagoons overrun by the rising tide. nearly three and a half million chickens were lost and thousands
information for example from two thousand and twelve until now there have been several cases of pollution in switzerland from switzerland to lick them on both sides the swiss side and the french side. back to the serious really do could do with this research but this was. a lot of time i do series that i work for the ballet district environmental protection service is i take charge of ensuring that the sewage plants observe federal requirements in this matter. the plant management informed me if it had been a spill of bio media filters did you know i asked them why you know where it came from what. you said but it wasn t until a few months later that we knew how it happened and the quantity that had been lost . is what we calculated about five cubic meters commit that
tips i find all these things that you find just in sewage are still falling out this. you know a thousand miles i know the ocean. if you can only it s really because there are two main reasons why we find a large quantities on the beaches the first is that there are people out there who clean their ears with cotton buds and then throw them down the toilet here les go into the sewage. and they should throw them into the bin. and see the problem is that in many towns there is only one grain pipe which carries the rainwater and the sewage together. from the climate is mild it goes to the sewage plant but when it rains have a light so much water goes into the sewage plants that they can t treat me no. so they have no other option. and to open the watergate and let untreated water flow directly into the environment. and this is the part we see.
island of corsica. had just received an invitation from a company called band c. to take a look at its new modern sewage treatment plant. in prison it s really a trust you. got to grow sure. i ve got here somewhere they send it to me all. this is. going well you know i saw the photos we sent them and compared them with the picture and they said this is in france once again. i mean do. you want it so now that we know what they were and what they were for. we were able to start investigating. you know what we knew when they were using water treatment plants and we visited sewage plants that used. water treatment is done in several stages. in the first stage or screen so used to retain the larger floating material here. if you did let me show you the grids get smaller and
and all this in the kampala pointed secured in this show me that he s going to try to understand the problem of rubbish in reverse since the only data we have up to now is that eighty percent of the litter in the city comes from the rivers or. the study began just over a year ago to find out the quantity and the type of litter which comes from rivers to find its origin its movement how it ends up in the city like this exist only in this way. the main conclusion we can draw from this study is that of the fifty thousand waste products collected during these twelve months that are a collection points about seventy percent was plastic. behind the sewage plants we found waste products which are usually in the sewage plants in a large quantity of medical waste is found just behind the sewage plants. i find all the stuff from combined sewage overflow i find the ocean i find the air buds i find that tampon applicators little little little pink little tubes i find cigar