Simply put, the sewage from our homes is combined with the sewers in the street before it is piped to the local sewage treatment plant control.

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Hell, Whitey Bulger would have been caught years earlier if the city fathers of Santa Monica had built a database of all its citizens and then sampled the effluence coming through its sewage treatment plant.

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Salonika's new but unfinished sewage-treatment plant wafts its fragrance across the otherwise attractive waterfront.

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The results include a common sewage-treatment plant in Gubin, and a school in Guben where classes are taught in both German and Polish.

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Other times the attacks are more personal:In 2000 a discontented consultant, rejected for a job at a water treatment plant in Australia, remotely hacked into a sewage treatment system and released 264, 000 gallons of raw sewage into rivers and parks.

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