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SpaceX wants to go to Mars. To get there, environmentalists say it’s trashing Texas

5:00am October 11, 2024

With each launch, SpaceX has been discharging tens of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater into sensitive wetlands. Environmentalists say an increase in launches will only make things worse.

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During the dry season, human waste makes the water putrid along the floating village of Prek Toal on Tonle Sap Lake.

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Floating Toilets That Clean Themselves Grow On A Lake

11:03am December 24, 2014

by Nsikan Akpan

A new project places little kayaks filled with aquatic plants under latrines in floating homes on Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake. So how do the toilets clean the wastewater?