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Re:Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up... by anitil on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:34PM (#18386199)
This is obviously hearsay, but I believe there are regulations in Aus that towns that discharge treated water have to discharge it upstream of their town, for just this reason.
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Re:Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up... by resters on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:43PM (#18386255)
This does happen. Apparently Chicago diverted the sewage and pollution in the Chicago river so that it would flow into the Mississippi river rather than onto Chicago's shores of Lake Michigan:

https://waterwars.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/a-brief-history-o...

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