Now that Amble has a smart new purifying works, the gulls no longer circle over the end of the underwater sewage pipe.

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Firefighters were called Saturday to the residential building in the Pujiang area of the eastern Zhejiang province city of Jinhua to rescue a baby trapped in the L-joint of a sewage pipe just below a squat toilet in one of the building's public restrooms.

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Raw sewage trickled from a broken pipe down the street, and the 37-year-old insurance agent scolded his two sons for playing nearby.

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Sewage leaked from a section of pipe embedded in the bank at Maiden Erlegh Lake, Berkshire on 6 February.

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Or, to get back to our earlier metaphor, as if you could compress the entire city's sewage through a single ordinary water pipe.

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Sewage was found spraying from a blocked pipe on Christmas Eve after the pumping station next to the site was unable to cope with the volumes of sewage.

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Each day 230, 000 gallons of sewage pass through before discharging, 99% decontaminated, through a 10-inch pipe into the harbor where fresh-faced grade-schoolers learn to tack.

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Each day 870, 000 liters of sewage pass through before being discharged, 99% decontaminated, through a 25-centimeter-diameter pipe into the harbor where grade-schoolers learn to tack.

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