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The city is ‘exceptionally bad’ at preventing sewage from polluting its waterways.
This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Chapter 3 of the project is presented by Holcim.
Brussels holds its nose on sewage water pollution problem
Its jokey approach is part of a campaign to tackle one of the major causes of water pollution: sewage overflows.
Like most European cities, Brussels collects rainwater and wastewater in a single system, meaning that days of heavy rain can cause the system to overflow and get discharged into waterways, including the canal.
