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...households - accepted her proposal. In three months she picked up 1,500 gal. (5,700 L) of excrement, which she'll give back to participants this spring after she and Mother Nature have transformed it into a rich bag of fertilizer. "I've sent a sample in for a coliform test," Klehm says. "There is zero detectable fecal bacteria." (Read a brief history of toilets...
...beginning of the film, Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear), a marketing V.P. for Mickey's burger franchise, gets some bad news from a company exec: "The fecal coliform [bacteria] counts were just off the charts ... I'm saying there's shit in our meat." But Don is a hard man to rob of his optimism. Before he goes off to inspect a meat factory, he cheerfully enunciates a rule of Marketing 101: "Don't kill the customer. It's bad for repeat business...
...Proportion of airplanes nationwide found to have fecal coliform bacteria in their drinking water...
...Until Big got sick. Now, klong coliform levels are printed in newspapers. Radio stations have been swamped with callers complaining about skin diseases they suspect they have contracted from riverboat taxi rides. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is demanding answers from bureaucrats. Pornpot has none. "The problem should have been dealt with 20 years ago when Bangkok's population began to boom," he says. "But it wasn't and now we are in serious trouble...
...estimated 1.8 million tons of cow poop a year. The stuff has got into the North Bosque and its tributary streams, which feed into Lake Waco, the drinking-water source for the city of Waco. The local water in Erath County shows increasing levels of nitrates, ammonia and fecal coliform bacteria. A farmer hired an independent water-monitoring firm and learned fecal coliform counts in his creek were running from 50,000 units per 100 milliliters to millions and even billions of units. The maximum is supposed to be 200. The increased phosphorus downriver threatens the water quality...