This isn't about what your kids drink, it's about wastewater. I'll guarantee that their drinking water has no shit in it. The solution to polution is dilution and the ocean is probably pretty tolerant of what's getting pushed into it.
This is about sewer overflows during rain events. Portland had/has the same problem. Portland dumped 1.4 billion dollars in 2011 to mostly solve it. We are also putting something like a billion dollars every 10 years into the treatment plant.
The only thing standing between the public and clean ocean water is a huge increase in water rates.
The people managing the the system would love to see 10 billion in infrastructure investment.
Here's what Portland did.
I will never forget watching the brown water bubble up out of a slightly elevated manhole on the side of a flooded Houston intersection and thinking "Oh cool, it's probably rained slightly more than it has at this intersection somewhere else nearby"
But between plastics, CO2, and overfishing, um, maybe we could just do a little bit of an EPA? 3x "1 free regulation" coupons (ocean watermark)? Maybe one more train? (spoilers: no, no, and no)
"brown water bubble up out of a slightly elevated manhole on the side of a flooded Houston intersection" is a drainage issue. That's Houston's lack of building codes and unchecked expansion there, not "they're pumping the sewers backwards" or some shit. A brief perusal of Harris County's flooding history will illustrate a trend.
I'm not saying "don't be upset about the EPA" I'm saying you are sucking more than usual at compartmentalizing.
There is nothing in this world that could make me click that link. Ideally, I would try to recreate what I imagine it to be like and compare. But I'm ok right now. Maybe tomorrow night?
And sure, agree, but I think I tried starting to stake out the other end of "the ocean filters all of my local pollutants, naturally".