Mar 28
Underground in places nobody likes to look, bacteria are doing terrible things to our sewage pipes. The concrete pipes that carry our waste are literally dissolving away, forcing engineers into a messy, expensive battle against tiny microbes.
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Mar 04
Andrew Emond, a Montreal-based photographer, amateur geographer, and DIY gonzo spelunker of the city’s sewers and lost rivers, has just re-launched his excellent website, Under Montreal. The revamped site now comes complete with a fascinating, interactive map of the city’s subterranean streams, documenting Montreal’s invisible rivers for all to see.
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Dec 16
"It’s dead quiet, and you feel like you’re the last man on earth. That’s incredibly rare in New York," says urban explorer Steve Duncan. Filmmaker Jon Kasbe followed Duncan—who many of you might recognize from 2011’s Undercity—down a sewer for the short film, A Beautiful Waste, released in July.
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Nov 01
Bad guys can’t just close their window shades to hide from the law anymore. A European research group has developed a high-tech way to detect bomb makers and illegal drug labs—by sniffing what they flush down the toilet.
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Aug 01
Though we may think we pump out roses when it’s go time on the ivory throne, nobody in their right mind would actually want to keep those roses around. So flush them away and down the magical toilet they go! But where do they go? To the vague destination of the sewers. And then where? To the ocean? To the city "river"? To anywhere that’s away from here? AsapScience explains the cycle of poop, from your bowels into the system with condoms and pebbles through bacteria and sludge into fertilizer for more poop. [AsapScience]
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Apr 10
Everybody knows about using oil as a fuel source, but London is putting a new spin on the concept. Soon the city will be mining its own sewers to bring up glorious globs of old cooking grease and melting them down into fuel. Delicious. More »
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