Tornado Alley (PROG)

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A significant question with using human sewage for fertilizer is that the sewage sludge treatment does not incapacitate or remove all viruses. It also does not remove chemicals from industrial and hospital wastes. Bacteria would be killed but not viruses. There shouldn't be any fecal coliform at all since they are bacteria and would be removed by sedimentation and killed by normal sewage treatment plant chlorination. Coliform bacteria are only an indicator organism. If you have coliform you will have a lot of other harmful bacteria. Also not all sewage treatment plants work perfectly all the time and in those bad times would release bacteria. That is particularly true in large older cities in which the storm drainage is connected to the sewerage system. When it rains the volume of water overwhelms the ability of treatment plants to work properly. Incidently a properly working treatment plant only removes 85% plus of the pollution. Guess where the rest goes?

Most diseases in third world countries are caused by using human fertilizer on crops which are then eaten by animals and then humans.

I have several decades of experience with these issues.