<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What happens if you don't maintain sewers? And why does overflowing sewage tend to occur primarily in minority areas? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">From an article on an EPA-Houston agreement to upgrade the latter's sewage system:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family:"Lora Regular";font-size:18px">The decree would force Houston to clean its 5,500 miles of gravity-driven sewer pipes every decade, to carry out more preventative cleanings in problem areas, and to emphasize its program to educate residents not to invite blockages by pouring grease, oil and other fats down the drain.</span></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;font-family:"Lora Regular";font-size:18px;line-height:1.78">The agreement would mandate a more aggressive schedule for assessing, cleaning and repairing the city’s sewer system, and prioritizes fixes in nine areas that experience voluminous spills during rainstorms, including the area around Mama Seafood.<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/2B-sewer-consent-decree-will-be-felt-in-15832490.php" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/2B-sewer-consent-decree-will-be-felt-in-15832490.php</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">see also:</span><br>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/books/review/waste-catherine-coleman-flowers.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/books/review/waste-catherine-coleman-flowers.html</span></a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;font-family:"Lora Regular";font-size:18px;line-height:1.78">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 30px;font-family:"Lora Regular";font-size:18px;line-height:1.78"></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Stay sane, keep washing those hands, and practice social solidarity as well as physical distancing,</font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan Coopersmith</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Professor</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Department of History</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Texas A&M University</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">College Station, TX 77843-4236</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.291.2925 (cell)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.862.4314 (fax)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>Engineering elections: <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/engineering-principles-us-election" target="_blank">https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/engineering-principles-us-election</a></div><div><br></div><div>Racial disparities in waiting to vote: <a href="https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267</a></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press) </font><br></div><div><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>