John Scotus<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ecologicalnightmare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecologicalnightmare</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/texassewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>texassewage</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crisis</span></a> <br>Throughout Central Texas, where two decades of booming population growth have come with a massive increase in domestic wastewater — mostly human sewage. The effluent from wastewater treatment plants appears clean and clear, but it contains high levels of organic nutrients that can cause algae blooms and devastate native aquatic ecosystems when dumped into streams and rivers.<br>“There’s a hell of a lot more people pissing in the pond,”“Private citizens should not have to be enforcing the environmental standards of the state.” Attempts to pass statewide regulations of discharges into waterways have repeatedly failed.<br>"Texas is becoming an open sewer"</p>