- Sewage: Public menace.
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Residents of Alaska will be irked today to learn that they are no longer the greatest toilet bowl in North America.
Delighted residents of British Columbia are now celebrating the news that they have inherited the title as a result of their attractiveness to cruise ships looking to dump their sewage.
Environmentalists have named British Columbia newest toilet bowl in town as it has been discovered that cruise ships have moved on from Alaska and into Canadian waters. This is likely the result of tighter US regulations over the past decade that were forcing more stringent treatment rules for the human waste before they could be dumped.
British Columbia, however, has capitalised on this popular market by keeping its laws as loose as the bowels from which the waste came, and allowing the ships to offload in its waters with very little restriction.
Memorial University Professor and cruise industry expert Ross Klein had this to say:
“B.C. is now the toilet bowl of the West Coast of North America. In Canada, there are no regulations in discharging water without any further monitoring,”
Devastated by the news, it is now believed that Alaska residents are campaigning for Sarah Palin to return to the state to rectify the situation.
Source: Ottawa Citizen
