"21. Toilet Paper, and All That Goes With It When there’s a rainstorm, far more water goes into our drainage system than sewage-treatment plants can handle. So the overflow pipes open wide, and all our wastewater—including the untreated effluvia of 8 million people—goes straight into the ocean. The day after a storm, the harbor is brown and thick with stirred-up silt that is shot through with human waste. Sometimes you can see shreds of toilet paper. When divers emerge from the harbor on those days, their suits have to be scrubbed down with bleach or kerosene before the men can strip them off."

This happens along the coastline around America quietly many times a year. Generally the outflow pipes are 1-2 miles offshore so if you aren't in a boat you don't see it, but as a sailor I see it two or three times a year in my home waters. This is why I always scoff at people who talk about MPG or global warming or anything else - we don't even separate storm run off from sewage in this country because a lot of towns saved some money by running one set of pipes - why are you worrying about possible effects of CO2 when there are massive effects happening from something we have the technology to solve today.