The story goes that after heavy rain all our sewage and stormwater overflows into our beaches and rivers.
But that makes me think, wouldn’t it be possible to stop this from happening with enough money and manpower or it is just simply not possible due to runoff from nature?
In: Planetary Science
That depends how the sewer system is set up. Where I live, the storm drains and sewer systems are separate, so when rain overwhelms the system, they don’t need to release raw sewage into the rivers. In places where the sewers and storm drains are combined, if the storms overwhelm the system, the only way to prevent sewage backup in houses is to pump the raw sewage and runoff directly into the waterways. IIRC practical engineering did a good video on this.
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