I should like to add a word about sewage sludge, which is the subject of sharp controversy in Germany.

The Commission proposal contains provisions for the purification of municipal sewage, and of comparable industrial waste waters, and for the removal of the sewage sludge. What we need, however, are official data.

There are now 20 EC legal acts concerned with cadmium, such as the limit values for cadmium drainage into water or the limit value for the cadmium content of sewage sludge or of batteries.

Sewage often pollutes the ocean.

Firstly, concerning the deadline for the discharge of sludge.

Sludge no longer has any place in the sea.

In Germany 92 of the population is connected to the public sewage system and 84 to public mechanical and biological sewage plants.

But, of course, they don't look like rocks and sludge now.

Don't worry, the ecoactivist tells journalists. You'll see plenty of oil sludge to photograph today.

Michael Pritchard Okay. We've got some runoff from a sewage plant farm.

When she came into my life, we were fighting against a huge waste facility planned for the East River waterfront, despite the fact that our small part of New York City already handled more than 40 percent of the entire city's commercial waste a sewage treatment pelletizing plant, a sewage sludge plant, four power plants, the world's largest food distribution center, as well as other industries that bring more than 60,000 diesel truck trips to the area each week.

Water and sewage systems are failing garbage is piling up in the streets.

It is pointed out in the report, and was confirmed by the Commissioner, that only half of the Community's inhabitants have their sewage treated, that 250 towns with more than 10 000 inhabitants have no sewage treatment plants and that two European capitals still have no sewage treatment facilities at all.

Furthermore, we still favour the earliest possible ban on discharging sludge into the sea, and we hope that the Commission will soon initiale a study on the Community wide environmental effects of the alternatives to discharging sludge and outfalls along the coast.

Primitive approaches to managing sewage continue to spread infections such as schistosomiasis, trachoma, viral hepatitis, and cholera.

It can wash the sludge off high mountain peaks and hills, down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute.

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Frankly, Mr President, neither the straightforward dumping of raw sewage nor the use of long outfall pipes is the answer.

Many rivers, lakes, estuaries and even sea coasts are polluted by constant discharges of municipal sewage and industrial waste waters.

And if we jam nutrients, sewage, fertilizer in the base of that food pyramid, it can back up all through it.

If you flush a toilet, your feces will go to the sewage treatment plants, which are sold as assets, not liabilities.

I also proposed bringing forward the date for introducing a ban on the dumping of sludge in the North Sea, which is a real scandal.

Long outfall pipes are simply the sewage equivalent of tall chimneys in S02 pollution. They have the effect of simply shifting the

That is the basic principle which we Liberals, who believe in the polluter pays principle, also want to see applied to sewage.

I realize full well that we shall encounter many problems because relatively small municipalities will need to be connected to the sewage system.

If we look around us, much of what surrounds us started life as various rocks and sludge buried in the ground in various places in the world.

As this own initiative opinion shows, there is every reason to have doubts about the use of sludge on farm land in view of its present quality.

To form part of the modern economy, firms and households need access to networks that deliver water and dispose of sewage and solid waste.

For this region, which has 50,000 residents, in summer sees its population soar to a million and the sewage treatment plants simply cannot cope.

On their website, the ecologists claim the trackers spilled out directly into the open air waterways outside the building, without encountering even the most rudimentary sewage filtration.

In November last year, a team of ecologists used GPS trackers to sniff out the city s polluted waterways, discovering rivers of untreated sewage flowing into Neva Bay.

There will be those who claim that sewage treatment is too expensive and that there is not enough money in the public coffers to spend on it.

For example, the Com munity's new waste water directive is prompting investment of around ECU 18 billion in our Member States to create the necessary sewage treatment plants.

As to quality (see Table 6), the average concentrations of heavy metals in sludge used in agriculture in the EU are well below the threshold limits set in Annex IB of the Directive.

As virtually all ships contain large quantities of hazardous substances like oil, sludge oil, asbestos, glass wool, PCBs, TBT and heavy metals, e.g. in paint, ships going for dismantling must be regarded as hazardous waste.

Balances there are being upset, we regularly hear of disasters oil slicks in Brittany and the North Sea, chemical pollution in the Seine estuary, mercury in the Baltic, red sludge in the Mediterranean, cutrophication of the

8. Further calls upon Israel to cease its destruction of vital infrastructure, including water pipelines and sewage networks, which, inter alia, has a negative impact on the natural resources of the Palestinian people

7. Further calls upon Israel to cease its destruction of vital infrastructure, including water pipelines and sewage networks, which, inter alia, has a negative impact on the natural resources of the Palestinian people

I would say to them that the price of water is made up of three components, namely the costs of supplying the drinking water, the costs of the sewage system and the costs of treating the waste water.

With regard to the problem of sludge discharged into the sea, I wanted to say that it is of the greatest importance to prevent this type of practice and, until such time as it is prevented, it must be kept under the strictest control.

Now how many of you have ever gone to a state park or a national park where you had a big sign at the front saying, Closed because human sewage is so far over this park that you can't use it ?

Noting the problem of marine pollution caused, inter alia, by land based sources and the continuing threat of pollution from ship generated waste and sewage as well as from the accidental release of hazardous and noxious substances in the Caribbean Sea area,

Noting the problem of marine pollution caused, inter alia, by land based sources and the continuing threat of pollution from ship generated waste and sewage as well as from the accidental release of hazardous and noxious substances in the Caribbean Sea area,

Noting the problem of marine pollution caused, inter alia, by land based sources and the continuing threat of pollution from ship generated waste and sewage, as well as from the accidental release of hazardous and noxious substances in the Caribbean Sea area,

Expressing its concern at the widespread destruction caused by Israel, the occupying Power, to vital infrastructure, including water pipelines and sewage networks, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which, inter alia, pollutes the environment and negatively affects the natural resources of the Palestinian people,