Supporters of the ban had argued that chemicals used to treat sewage harmed fish and other aquatic life.
The ban exempted certain kinds of waste, including sewage sludge, fish waste, vessels and platforms, inert geologic material, and large items consisting mainly of iron, steel, or concrete.
From Ecuador to the Hudson River Valley, similar constructed wetlands are already cleaning up polluted water from landfills, slaughterhouses, cider mills, sewage plants, fish farms and parking lots.
The waterways in the city remain full of raw sewage, dead fish and rubbish despite the head of the International Olympic Committee inspection team, Nawal El Moutawakel, saying she was confident the venue will be ready in time for the games.
Add a little global warming, sewage and fish farming to the mix, and well, corals -- one of the most delicate structures in the marine ecosystem -- just die.
Much of the interest in freshwater has concerned effects of EDCs in sewage on fish populations but lower profile, invertebrate species are also affected.
This protocol came into force on 24 March 2006 and recognised seven categories of waste; i) dredged material; ii) sewage sludge; iii) fish waste (or material resulting from industrial fish processing operations); iv) vessels and platforms or other man-made structures at sea; v) inert, inorganic geological material; vi) organic material of natural origin.
This is how Julia Child described Marseille in 1953, when she was living on the Vieux Port: "The air was brisk and breezy, and the harbor was redolent of sewage and decaying fish.
Though our home was suffixed with the words "-on-Sea", we Southenders imagined what might be floating down the river from London to greet us: remains of bodies offloaded by imagined gangsters, raw sewage, three-eyed toxic fish.
Smaller-scale fishing takes place in the Sea of Azov and the Black and Caspian seas (the Caspian sturgeon is the source of the world's finest caviar), but reduced river flows and pollution from agricultural runoff, industrial waste, and sewage dumping have thinned fish populations.
