Royal Caribbean to upgrade wastewater systems

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MIAMI -- Royal Caribbean International cruise lines will add equipment to
its ships that will better clean sewage and waste water before it's dumped
in the ocean, officials said Wednesday.

The ships' equipment will clean the up to 24,000 gallons of sewage or
``blackwater'' and 265,000 gallons of ``graywater'' from laundries, showers,
sinks and dishwashers each dumps daily when it's at sea.

The announcement came a month after the nonprofit advocacy organization
Oceana and other groups called for the cruise line to clean up its sewage
and wastewater to protect marine habitats and human health. At the time, the
company accused the groups of ``grandstanding.''

``We are confident today this technology economically and environmentally
can treat graywater and blackwater to levels of purity equivalent to Alaska
wastewater standards,'' Royal Caribbean chairman and chief executive Richard
Fain wrote in a letter Tuesday to Oceana officials.

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Chris

All the major cruiselines are continuely improving all their waste handling
procedures and equipment. I'm satisfied with the process where by no grey
water is released close to shore but only in the open sea.

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What's "grey water" and "black water"?

On 06 May 2004 01:01:15 GMT, (HDawson228) wrote:

All the major cruiselines are continuely improving all their waste handling
procedures and equipment. I'm satisfied with the process where by no grey
water is released close to shore but only in the open sea.

Lee Lindquist wrote:

On Thu, 06 May 2004 09:57:09 -0500, Crescent
wrote:


What's "grey water" and "black water"?


Human waste.

Dunno bout "grey water", but plenty of that "black water" fell all over
me during a particularly disgusting shower in our suite on the Explorer
of the Seas.

Howie

donnie wrote:

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says...


Dunno bout "grey water", but plenty of that "black water" fell all over
me during a particularly disgusting shower in our suite on the Explorer
of the Seas.

Howie


You might not have those kind of problems if you
didn't ask your crazy wife for a golden shower.
Incontinence is a terrible thing to waste.

Eat me, donkie.

On Fri, 07 May 2004 06:58:58 -0400, Howie
wrote:

Dunno bout "grey water", but plenty of that "black water" fell all over
me during a particularly disgusting shower in our suite on the Explorer
of the Seas.

Howie


You might not have those kind of problems if you
didn't ask your crazy wife for a golden shower.
Incontinence is a terrible thing to waste.

Eat me, donkie.
Howie

I suppose when your wife won't service you, bestiality is all you have
left Howie.

donnie wrote:

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says...

Give it up, envious ****wit. You and your ragtag playmates, living life
in the little league, aren't worthy of another reply from me. And you
won't get one.

Howie - thinking he should pay greater heed to his own advice.

In article ,
says...
On Fri, 07 May 2004 06:58:58 -0400, Howie
wrote:

Eat me, donkie.
Howie

I suppose when your wife won't service you, bestiality is all you have
left Howie.

it looks like howie is one of those animal
husbandry professors who really believes
in being the husband of an animal.



donnie wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:42:56 -0400, Howie
wrote:


Give it up, envious ****wit. You and your ragtag playmates, living life
in the little league, aren't worthy of another reply from me. And you
won't get one.

Howie - thinking he should pay greater heed to his own advice.

Only a ****wit could be so stupid.

Many of us surely hate when school is out and you have no more co-eds
to chase, play Superman in front of and generally we have to put up
with this AWESOME craving of yours for continual attention.

You would think you would have enough to do keeping up with poor
Eileen's deteriorating mental health but obviously that is a back
burner issue for you.