WINNIPEG—Canoeist David Danyluk doesn’t live far from Winnipeg’s Assiniboine River but he tends to spend more time paddling further afield. That’s because he doesn’t want to risk gliding through the sewage that regularly makes its way into Winnipeg’s river system. Trees lean over the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg on Oct. 14, 2016. The city is planning to spend more than $1 billion and take more than two decades to greatly reduce such spills, although they will not be completely eliminated. The combined water is sent to a sewage treatment plant nearly all the time, but in periods of very heavy rain it goes directly into the rivers.

Source: thestar September 09, 2018 15:56 UTC