But, of course, they don't look like rocks and sludge now.

Two surprising conclusions are emerging in today s discussions, but only one has been fully digested.

Large quantities of mercury were detected in fish, shellfish and sludge from the bay.

Oil sludge constitutes the most important type of solid waste in terms of quantity (Linden et al., 1990).

Such franchises may cover local sanitation network extension, sludge removal and disposal, sewage collection and treatment and other service delivery.

It can wash the sludge off high mountain peaks and hills, down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute.

American Thinker editor and publisher Thomas Lifson wrote that the book presents Christian theology in a way that it can be understood and digested by Muslims. .

If we look around us, much of what surrounds us started life as various rocks and sludge buried in the ground in various places in the world.

And because 100 percent of what we put in the tool become the final product, even the parts that aren't digested become part of the structure, we're getting incredible yield rates.

If the Director General was being asked to make a recommendation to the Industrial Development Board, it was obvious that the Board would take appropriate action after having digested that recommendation.

These include biodigester septic tanks for treatment of domestic sewage anaerobic pond systems for treating agricultural processing wastes and anaerobic sludge reactors for the treatment of food processing waste water.

Political leaders will have to tell their constituents that there are limits to how much military budgets can be cut, as the peace dividend from the Cold War s end was digested long ago.

However, effective monitoring requires that information be assimilated and digested imply results for those reporting (such as additional funding for demonstrated commitment) and form the basis of discussion, research, technical support, or sharing of lessons learned.

But these haze particles, it was surmised, before we got there with Cassini, over billions and billions of years, gently drifted down to the surface and coated the surface in a thick organic sludge.

Two surprising conclusions are emerging in today s discussions, but only one has been fully digested. First, big public sector action is needed. Second, such action is complicated because in a globalized world the need for assistance spans borders.

While high density urban settlements generally require sewerage networks and waste water treatment facilities, in low density settlements on site sanitation, such as septic tanks with sludge removal, may be an option with significantly lower costs.

The result is information fatigue a palpable sense of exhaustion, coupled with persistent anxiety about coping with the sheer volume of material to be digested, compounded by an ever shortening attention span in the face of the ceaseless barrage of data.

Sewage is produced by all human communities and is often left to compost naturally or is treated using processes that separate solid materials by settlement and then convert soluble contaminants into biological sludge and into gases such as carbon dioxide or methane.

And the tourist brochures pointed me in the direction of this bridge I love bridges, metaphorically and symbolically and structurally and it was a bit of a disappointment, because of the sludge from the river was encrusted on it it really wasn't in use.

These are the Athabasca tar sands, and there's an enormous amount first of mining, the largest trucks in the world are working here, and then you've got to pull out this black sludge, which is basically oil that doesn't flow. It's tied to the sand. And then you've got to use a lot of steam to separate it, which only works at today's oil prices.