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Hundreds of people swept up in the #Trump admin’s crackdown on #immigration are being kept at #overcrowded #Krome detention in #Miami, sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor & raw #sewage – conditions that lawyers, families & fmr detainees call #inhumane. One woman…said she & fellow detainees were left in #shackles & #chains on buses overnight, so long that some urinated on themselves. She said she was put in a cell w/ ~30 women before she was deported.

miamiherald.com/news/local/imm

Lifeless rock pools at Sawtell

After cyclone Alfred whipped up a 'bacteria smoothy' along Australia's east coast the sea foam then merged with a 'flush' from the suburbs. Dislodged smelly sponges at Sawtell beach made breathing and contact impossible. Even without fossil fueled disasters the intertidal zone at the north end of the beach is barren. The rock pools and crevices no longer house sea anemones, crabs, black nerites, limpets, sea stars, mulberry oyster borers, algae, sea anemones, sponges, tube worms, sea stars, oysters, and fish.

Still good enough for hosting 'sports' and advertising events amplified by megaphone so they can be heard at Lord Howe Island too.

From water pollution to blue gold

Water "“blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. Pollution from water companies and agricultural runoff are driving the contamination, which affects all parts of the country, causing toxic algal blooms, mass die-offs of fish, and risks to human health."

"A country that once let raw sewage and industrial wastewater flow directly into its water. Today, it is 98%, and the country has a reputation for pristine swimming waters, sometimes referred to as its “blue gold” – and it’s all thanks to a complex network of sewage plants."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#water #pollution #micropollutants #ecosystem #health #swimming #Australia #sewage #floods #runoff #ImperviousSurfaces #roads #MassMortalities #SepticTanks #sprawl #biodiversity #rivers #civilisation

The Guardian · From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its riversBy Phoebe Weston