EvacuateSoul
Discharge to bodies of water after treatment is normal. Pictured is a normal activated sludge plant, which should be capable of treating effectively. That’s the clarifier top left, chlorine contact on right, aeration/digesters on bottom.
It isn’t primitive. An imhoff tank and lagoon is primitive, but even those are perfectly capable of treating wastewater. It’s almost always that there is more flow now than the plant is designed to handle.
If they are staying within permit, it probably allows more inflow than the plant can handle and has too loose of restrictions on the outflow tests if it is causing harm to the lake.
This is a common talking point, but much of what you’ve said isn’t true. We did not have enough gold to cover every dollar the whole time under Bretton Woods, about 65% at the end of WW2, and it wasn’t out of the blue that Nixon withdrew from the agreement.
If we had tried to maintain that system, we would have either lost all our gold due to countries taking advantage of the price difference between the peg and gold markets worldwide, or we would have had to restrict dollar supply to the point we would no longer be the reserve currency of the world, neither of which were in our country’s interest.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system#Late_application
“Honey, let’s go to bed, so these nice folks can go home.”
WEP, war emergency power. Depends on the aircraft how long you could use it.