Trading cleaner water for a warmer world?
Cleaning up the Chicago River could increase global warming emissions, argues water reclamation agency.
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Pitting clean water against clean air is a false choice. The MWRD should evaluate all its practices and work to reduce its energy footprint so we can add disinfection technology like every other metropolis in the United States without using more energy. Portland actually creates enough electricity from its wastewater treatment practices that it is a net energy producer and sells the excess back to the grid. With the world's largest treatment plant in the world part of the MWRD's system, why.... More



























