Previously, the only recourse had been the makeshift device of mixing the fetuses in furtively with raw waste from the fish market.

The bureau does not say that this is the only major municipality in North America still dumping its raw waste in the sea.

The system's failure caused raw waste to fill city streets and flow untreated into the rivers, where millions of Iraqis turned for drinking water during the war.

Yet, ironically, the raw nuclear waste originally came from Germany.

Dumping raw waste in landfills not only subverts recycling efforts, it wreaks havoc with our ground and surface water resources and on our air.

The raw waste seeps into the ground, contaminating the water.

But when a treatment plant dumps raw waste into the water or produces a stomach-turning stench, the choice is made for them.

The last time that closing such a large pumping station required raw waste to be dumped was in 1987, city officials said.

Budapest alone, beneath its seven magnificent bridges, expels the raw waste of two million people, treating only 25 percent.

If Dusty Muleman pulled his usual trick, all that raw waste would be streaming out of the basin later.