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Fun Facts about Wastewater: |
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A leaky toilet can waste up to 10 gallons of water per day |
If you leave the water running while hand washing, you use on average two gallons of water |
Wastewater from the Tippecanoe Mall takes approximately eight hours to reach the Lafayette Water Pollution Control Plant |
80 percent of water pollution worldwide comes from wastewater, mainly from developing nations that do not treat wastewater |
After the Clean Water Act was implemented in the United States in 1972, pollutant discharges into receiving waterways have been highly regulated and led to cleaner and safer water throughout the country |