Other times the attacks are more personal:In 2000 a discontented consultant, rejected for a job at a water treatment plant in Australia, remotely hacked into a sewage treatment system and released 264, 000 gallons of raw sewage into rivers and parks.
In 1910 there was over 600 million gallons of raw sewage flowing into the harbor.
Thames Water was fined in June for twice letting raw sewage seep into Sandford Brook, Abingdon.
It can transform dirty water from any source: rivers, oceans, and even raw sewage.
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Raw sewage is a major health risk, Rodriguez said, but respiratory infections could also spread quickly.
Rain in August caused flooding, washing away tents, preventing food deliveries and flushing raw sewage around some camps.
Raw sewage has remained on a footpath in a Devon town since the floods before Christmas, residents have said.
Raw sewage meandered down the middle of the road, passing between the wheels.
Around 500, 000 tonnes of raw sewage are discharged every day into Iraq's rivers.
Raw sewage has been allowed into water at Hope's Nose in Torbay after a seawall breach at Livermead in Torquay.
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Richard Berkley, from Playhatch, said he had lived with a "lake of raw sewage" outside his home intermittently since early December.
Making matters worse, according to passengers, toilets and drainpipes had overflowed, soaking many cabins and interior passages in raw sewage.
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Raw sewage from sewer overflows and polluted rainwater add to the mix.
Raw sewage trickled from a broken pipe down the street, and the 37-year-old insurance agent scolded his two sons for playing nearby.
Cockroaches were rampant and raw sewage dripped from pipes in the kitchen.
He said the proposed Thames Tunnel offered "the most timely, comprehensive and cost effective solution" to raw sewage being dumped into the Thames.
Residents are "surrounded by flowing raw sewage, " and many have been forced to resort to drink contaminated water from rivers, the group said.
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Thousands more pipes could discharge raw sewage into the sea, rivers and lakes than was previously thought, the Marine Conservation Society has said.
Heavy rain earlier in the month overwhelmed London's drains and led to the discharge of 1m tonnes of raw sewage into the Thames.
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Mr Slaughter claimed raw sewage could be seen in the Thames on a "regular, weekly basis" which was a "disgrace" to the capital.
An inquiry is to be held into the spillage of raw sewage into the sea off Kent which resulted in several beaches being closed.
More than 20 beaches were closed in June after raw sewage entered the sea when the Southern Water Foreness Point Sewage Pumping Station failed.
Meanwhile the town carries on dumping raw sewage in the river.
"It is clear that the public do not want raw sewage in this iconic river, through one of the most important cities in the world, " he concluded.
Even before this flow of offal, raw sewage so polluted the shores of Lake Michigan that in the summer of 1854 typhoid and dysentery claimed 60 lives a day in Chicago.
Aid organizations inside Zimbabwe warn that the contagious disease is spreading fast since raw sewage from burst pipes near the capital, Harare, flowed into wells, rivers and streams, the only source of drinking water for many Zimbabweans.
Those same balconies became a negative focal point in 1673, when King Carlos II decreed that shopkeepers could raise tarpaulins above their stalls to fend off the raw sewage that the residents habitually tossed from the windows above.
The disposal of raw, untreated sewage on farmland in Scotland has led to fears that dangerous viruses may be lurking in the soil or finding their way into the water supply.
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