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Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is currently working through a wicked problem involving their sewage system which has been dumping raw sewage into the waters off the coast of Victoria for over 100 years. There are three outfall pipes discharging preliminary treated sewage into the ocean (Berman, 2015), which means it is simply screened of large solids and not treated in any way (Pescod, 1992).

https://environment.geog.ubc.ca/the-poop-scoop-victorias-sewage-problem/