March 2nd, 2011 2:06 pm PT
That pungent aroma wafting over the beautiful city by the bay isn’t merely the stench of its leftist political climate, but a tangible result of those wrong-headed policies. A spokesman for the city’s Public Utilities Commission, Tyrone Jue, has said that a rotten egg smell emanating from its sewers has cost taxpayers over $100 million in the past five years, as the city has upgraded its treatment plants and sewer system to eliminate the smell. And the cause of the problem? Sludge backing up in waste pipes left by low-flow environmentally friendly oh-so green toilets forced on the public by local politicians and the federal government. Having first created a water shortage by refusing to build new reservoirs to meet the needs of a growing population, environmentalists pointed to the shortage as prima facie evidence of the need to cut water consumption, hence toilets that used half as much water. And now, to solve the problem created by toilets that don’t do what Thomas Crapper intended, the city is planning to dump 8.5 million gallons of bleach into its sewers, at an additional cost of $14 million. As the law of unintended consequences continues to roll down the hill, environmental groups have already begun to protest the use of concentrated sodium hypochlorite (bleach).
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